63 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 P. Billings (ed.), Crimmigration in Australia, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9093-7_4 Chapter 4 Sexing the Leviathan: When Feminisms and Crimmigration Meet Kate Ogg Abstract Despite crimmigration being the topic of a growing feld of scholarship, there is a dearth of gender research that explicitly engages with crimmigration the- ory. This lacuna has prompted calls for increased research on gender and crimmi- gration. However, the dilemma for feminist scholars is that crimmigration theory has developed with little reference to gender. Thus, there needs to be a sexing of crimmigration theory to unearth its gendered assumptions and biases. In this chap- ter, I begin this examination by drawing on theoretical and empirical contributions to the feld of feminist criminology to analyse the experience of three women who came to Australia seeking refugee protection but were treated akin to a criminal offender at many stages of their journey. This analysis indicates that crimmigration theory ignores and misrepresents many women’s experiences of the intersections between criminal and immigration law. Nevertheless, it also shows that feminist perspectives can enrich our understanding of crimmigration law and calls on contri- butions from feminist researchers to contribute to the sexing of crimmigration the- ory and examinations of the gendered aspects of crimmigration law. Keywords Feminist criminology · Gender · Crimmigration law/theory · Refugee women Thank you to Samuel Rutherford for his invaluable research assistance. Thank you to the reviewers for their feedback and comments. All errors and ommissions are the author’s own. K. Ogg (*) ANU College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia e-mail: kate.ogg@anu.edu.au Crimmigration in Australia : Law, Politics, and Society, edited by Peter Billings, Springer, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/anu/detail.action?docID=5940332. Created from anu on 2020-03-08 17:58:57. Copyright © 2019. Springer. All rights reserved.