Alison Gerard
Associate Professor
LAW AND JUSTICE
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Biography
Alison Gerard is the Associate Professor in Law at Charles Sturt University. Alison's research focuses on social justice issues and has been included in international journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Refugee Studies, and Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her latest book, The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women provides a humanized account of restrictions on mobility and the tensions between refugee protection and border control. The book draws on the experiences of Somali refugee women who arrive in the Southern European Union Member State of Malta, and analyses their exposure to criminal justice practices of deterrence, punishment, and risk reduction. Alison's current research projects focus on the criminalization of asylum seekers in Hong Kong, and, the over-representation of young people in out-of-home care in the criminal justice system. Her fifth book, an edited international collection entitled Entrapping Asylum Seekers, will be published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2017.
Research Interest
Corporate law, class actions, public international law and legal research
Publications
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Pickering, S., Maher, J., Gerard, A. (2012), 'Privileging work not sex: Flexibility and employment in the sexual services industry', Sociological Review, 60(4): 654-75.
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Ham, J & Gerard, A (2013) 'Strategic invisibility: Does agency make sex workers invisible?' in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Published online September 3, 2013.
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Gerard, A & Pickering, S (2013) 'Gender, Securitisation and Transit: Refugee women and the Journey to the EU' Journal of Refugee Studies, Published online October 27, 2013.
