Mary Bosworth

Inside Immigration Detention

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Produktbeschreibung

As states around the globe detain foreigners in greater numbers, a critical, academic examination of the social and cultural world of immigration detention centres is long overdue. This groundbreaking study based on extensive fieldwork in the British system unveils the world of immigration detention - its culture, politics, and impact on detainees.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780198722571
• ISBN-10: 0198722575
• Artikelnr.: 42388861

Autorenporträt

Mary Bosworth is Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford, and concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She works on race, gender, and citizenship in prisons and immigration detention. Her books include Engendering Resistance (1999), The US Federal Prison System (2002), and Explaining US Imprisonment (2010). Mary is Director of Border Criminologies , an interdisciplinary research group in Oxford, and UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology. She is currently leading a 5-year European Starting Grant, 'Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power' as well as a 3-year Leverhulme International Research Network on External Border Control.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Inside Immigration Detention
1: The Historical Development of Immigration Detention in Britain
2: Understanding Detention
3: Recognition and Belonging in an Age of Deportation
4: Everyday Life in Detention
5: The Detention Community
6: Uncertainty, Identity, and Power in Detention
7: Ambivalence and Estrangement in Detention
Conclusion: Irrevocably Foreign?