Inside immigration detention / Mary Bosworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosworth, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizen detention centers--Great Britain.

Noncitizen detention centers.

Noncitizen detention centers--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Detention of persons--Great Britain.

Detention of persons.

Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

On any given day nearly 3,000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained in similar conditions. The institutions charged with immigrant detention are volatile and contested sites. They are also places about which we know very little. What is their goal? How do they operate? How are they justified? Inside Immigration Detention lifts the lid on the hidden world of migrant detention, presenting the first national study of life in British immigration removal centres. Offering more than just a description of life behind bars of those men and women awaiting deportation, it uses extensive empirical data, including staff and detainee testimonies, to revisit key assumptions about state power and the legacies of colonialism under conditions of globalization. Book jacket.

Contents:

The historical development of immigration detention in Britain

Understanding immigration detention

Recognition and belonging in an age of deportation

Everyday life in detention

The detention community

Uncertainty, identity, and power in detention

Ambivalence and estrangement in detention

Conclusion : Irrevocably foreign?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.

ISBN:

0198722575

9780198722571

9780199675470

0199675473

OCLC:

881438158