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Can the Baby Speak?
Hamlet’s dictum ‘I must be cruel, only to be kind’ has taken on new life in the minds of Australia’s border policymakers. Reading Jordana Silverstein’s history of child refugee policy, Ellena Savage uncovers an argument for children’s liberation as well as a critique of the turn towards ‘care’.
Nov. 2023 •
Kinship and care • Politics
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Can the Baby Speak?
Hamlet’s dictum ‘I must be cruel, only to be kind’ has taken on new life in the minds of Australia’s border policymakers. Reading Jordana Silverstein’s history of child refugee policy, Ellena Savage uncovers an argument for children’s liberation as well as a critique of the turn towards ‘care’.
Nov. 2023 •
Kinship and care • Politics