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Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control : Subject to Examination / by E. Smith, M. Marmo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, E., Author.
- Marmo, M., Author.
- Series:
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, 2662-2610
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Race.
- Political science.
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Science.
- Crime and Society.
- Human Migration.
- Local Subjects:
- Gender Studies.
- Sociology of the Body.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Science.
- Crime and Society.
- Human Migration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at the border is uncovered.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Decolonisation and the Creation of the British Immigration Control System; 2 The Border as a Filter: Maintaining the Divide in the Post-Imperial Era; 3 Reorienting the South Asian Female Body: The Practice of Virginity Testing and the Treatment of Migrant Women; 4 Deny, Normalise and Obfuscate: The Government Response to the Virginity Testing Practice and Other Physical Abuses; 5 The Postcolonial World Stage: Immigration and Britain's International Reputation
- 6 Discrimination by Other Means: Further Restrictions on Migrant Women and Children Under the ConservativesConclusion; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137280442
- 1137280441
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