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This paper investigates the spatial frames that are mobilised in the discourse and practice of border policing in the Australian context and the ideological content in which those frames are embedded. On the one hand, a deterritorialised frame positions unwanted migrants as a global threat from beyond. On the other, a territorialised frame enables the possibility of sovereign territorial defence. Neither of these frames, I contend, adequately captures contemporary techniques of border policing which increasingly open borders to global market ideology in the very act of their defence. Nor do they capture the strategic opportunities that exist across different places and scales to resist sovereign logics of control. The paper drills down to the level of the city and the experience of asylum seekers in Melbourne in order to further highlight the limits of simplistic spatial frames. I show that both in local sites and at territory's edges, border policing is indicative of a new terrain of sovereign practice. Accordingly, I present an analytical and normative case for a multidimensional approach to spatial framing. I argue for theoretical openness to spatial metaphors that assist in the tasks of empirically investigating and politically unsettling technologies of contemporary border control. Este articulo investiga los marcos espaciales que se han puesto en marcha en el planteamiento y la practica de vigilancia de la frontera en el contexto australiano y contenido ideologico, en los que se han incluido aquellos marcos. Por un lado, un marco de desterritorializacion situa a los migrantes indeseados mas alla de una amenaza global. Por el otro, un marco territorializado habilita la posibilidad de una defensa de soberania territorial. Ninguno de esos marcos, yo sostengo, capta adecuadamente las tecnicas contemporaneas de la vigilancia de frontera, que progresivamente abre fronteras a la ideologia del mercado global al mismo momento de su defensa. Tampoco captan las oportunidades estrategicas que existen a traves de lugares y escalas diferentes, para resistir las logicas soberanas de control. El articulo va hasta el nivel de la ciudad y la experiencia de los buscadores de asilo en Melbourne, para resaltar mas aun los limites de los marcos espaciales simplistas. Demuestro que tanto en los sitios locales, como en los bordes del territorio, la vigilancia de frontera es un indicativo de una practica soberana de un nuevo terreno. Por consiguiente, presento un caso analitico y normativo para un enfoque multidimensional, a una enmarcacion espacial. Yo sostengo una apertura teorica, a las metaforas espaciales que colaboran con las tareas de la investigacion empirica y las tecnologias politicamente desestabilizantes del control de frontera contemporaneo. [image omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 's11' protest in Melbourne in 2000 saw 20,000 demonstrators successfully blockade the Asia-Pacific Summit of the World Economic Forum and led to the cohering of the Global Justice Movement (GJM) in Australia. The 9/11 attacks, a year later to the day, halted that momentum and seemingly caused movement crisis and retreat. While some accounts, such as the Wall Street Journal's editorial 'Adieu Seattle?', argued the 'global security crisis' trumped movement claims and strategy, the experience of activists in Australia is better conceptualised as rearticulation and realignment in response to elite hegemonic practices. This article argues that 9/11 was not the cause of movement collapse in Australia, but that its consequences exacerbated internal movement weaknesses. Further, it argues that despite the return of anti-systemic movements – in the form of the Indignados and Occupy movements in particular – the global justice frame has remained weak in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]