Border watch cultures of immigration, detention and control
Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold and original intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, New York, NY
Pluto Press, Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press LLC
2012©2012, 2012
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| Series: | Anthropology, culture and society
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold and original intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a window onto society's broader attitudes towards immigrants. Despite periodic media scandals, remarkably little has been written about the everyday workings of the grassroots immigration system, or about the people charged with enacting immigration policy at local levels. Detention, particularly, is a hidden side of border politics, despite its growing international importance as a tool of control and security. This book fills the gap admirably, analysing the everyday encounters between officers and immigrants in detention to explore broad social trends and theoretical concerns |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 199 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780745327242 0745327249 |