Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200683

Funded Activity Summary

Rethinking Medico-Legal Borders: From international to internal histories . The response to coronavirus has starkly revealed the significance of internal movement and its regulation. Yet the focus of scholarship on medico-legal border control remains almost exclusively on international movement. This project addresses that major gap by researching the regulation of internal movement in past and present pandemic times, with a focus on plague, influenza, SARS and coronavirus in Australia, and in comparison with Hong Kong. It will interrogate the ambiguous internal/international borders of ships in quarantine in the past and in the coronavirus present. Bringing law and history together, this project will clarify how internal movement has been, and can best be, lawfully restricted.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2021

End Date: 31-01-2025

Funding Scheme: Special Research Initiatives

Funding Amount: $247,923.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | Law and Society | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies |

Other Keywords

Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies | Historical Studies | Law and Society | Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past

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