Henrietta is a Research Fellow (Pacific Security, Geopolitics, Regionalism) in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the ANU. Her research focus is Pacific regional security and the security-migration nexus, particularly transnational crime, criminal deportations, border security, citizenship, and security cooperation. Henrietta holds a PhD from the ANU examining the securitisation of criminal deportation to the Pacific Islands, particularly Tonga, Samoa and Cook Islands. During her studies, she was a 2021-22 Fulbright scholar visiting the University of Hawai’i, UCLA, and Lewis and Clark Law School (Oregon); and was named a La Trobe Indo-Pacific Emerging Leader in 2021. Henrietta is a co-investigator on two Australian Department of Defence Strategic Policy Grant projects: ‘Pacific maritime security coordination: partnerships, priorities, and possibilities’ (2024-2026) and ‘Statecraftiness: mapping competition, cooperation, and coercion in the Pacific Islands’ (2022-2024); and was previously the Research Associate on another: ‘Mapping Security Cooperation in the Pacific Islands’ (2020-2023).

Publications:

• McNeill, H, and Mackenzie, V. (2024) Sasa’a le fafao?: Approaches to return and reintegration of criminal deportees (returnees) into Samoa, International Journal of Crime Justice and Social Democracy 13(3): 59-70 https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3605
• McNeill, H. (2023) Deportation as an act of neo-colonialism: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border. Political Geography 102: 102845 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102845
• Wallis, J., McNeill, H., Batley, J., and Powles, A. (2022) Security cooperation in the Pacific Islands: architecture, complex, community, or something else? International Relations of the Asia-Pacific https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcac005