Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum
Offshore Processing at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea and Nauru

By (author) Jennifer Ferng

ISBN13: 9781032461984

Imprint: Routledge

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Published: 10/09/2025

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Corporate Ethics and the Architecture of Asylum engages innovative perspectives to understand our contemporary crisis of forced displacement and detention practices in the Pacific. Multinational contractors responsible for the construction and maintenance of regional processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru have flourished as powerful historical actors, exerting global dominance over the lives of asylum seekers wishing to come to Australia. Transitioning from the policeman or security guard toward the subject of the asylum seeker, this book contends that entanglements between architecture and law represent important epistemic models to interrogate how asylum can be understood and reconceptualized. Proposing diverse forms of visual and textual evidence, asylum is repositioned as a dynamic, ever-changing countermeasure against xenophobic sentiments around offshore processing. Over six chapters, Corporate Ethics examines how the regional processing centres of Manus Island and Nauru are deeply connected to the intellectual discourses of care, environmental precarity, human rights, and sovereignty. From Rembrandt’s De Nachtwacht or Night Watch (1642) to recent advancements in artificial intelligence and legal testimonies, picturing the future of asylum serves as a critical tool to resist state authoritarianism and the rise of corporate malfeasance in the built environment. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of humanitarian architecture, architectural history and Asia Pacific politics.
List of acronyms and abbreviations List of figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction - Managing Pacific environments Chapter 2. Offshore operations Chapter 3. Precarious lives Chapter 4. Caring for health and wealth Chapter 5. Corporate sovereigns Chapter 6. Picturing asylum and its counter archives Bibliography Appendices Index
  • Architecture
  • Asylum law
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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