Azadeh Dastyari is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at Western Sydney University and a Director of the Network for Law and Human Rights, Australia.

Amy Nethery is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Asher Hirsch is a Senior Policy Officer with the Refugee Council of Australia.

1. Examining refugee externalisation policies: a comparative study of Europe and Australia PART I: What is externalisation? 2. The cat and mouse game of refugee externalisation policies: between law and politics 3. The externalisation of refugee policies: the politics of distancing PART II: Interception at sea 4. Australia's boat push-back policy: hyper-legalism and obfuscation in action 5. Interdiction in the Mediterranean Sea: From Unilateral to Multilateral Cooperation PART III: Extraterritorial processing 6. Active neglect and the externalisation of responsibility for refugee protection 7. Beyond Europe's borders: containment and deterrence across the Mediterranean Sea PART IV: Containment and third country interception 8. Floodgate politics: Europe's externalisation policies and Turkey's response 9. Externalised immobilisation strategies: from detaining to containing refugees in Indonesia PART V: Communicating externalisation and resistance 10. Awareness campaigns to deter migrants: a neoliberal industry for symbolic bordering 11. #LetThemStay: evaluating communications factors that contributed to asylum policy reform in Australia PART VI: The future of externalisation 12. Refugee externalisation policies: what we have learnt and where are we going?