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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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 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : going inside
- Visual practice and the secure regime
- Being there : social life in the centre
- Compliance and defiance : contesting the regime
- Drawing the line : discretion and power
- Ethics and encounters
- Conclusion
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index