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Human rights, refugee protest and immigration detention /
This book builds a compelling picture of injustices inside immigration detention centers, within the context of the rise of the use of immigration detention in the Global North. The author presents the rarely heard voices of refugees, bringing their perspectives to light and personalising and humani...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; Why This Book?; A Brief Note on Terminology; Refugee, Asylum Seeker or Detainee?; Identifying Individuals; Bureaucratic Terms; Structure of the Book; References; 2: 'We Are Human.' Re-humanising Human Rights; Dehumanising Categories; Some Problems with Human Rights in Modernity; The Right to Have Rights; The Human Condition as the Basis for Human Rights; Meaningful Speech and Action; Plurality: Equality and Distinction; Human Rights as Mutual Guarantee; Regaining the Right to Have Rights.
- Rights as a Criminal Direct Communication Beyond the Bureaucracy; An Alternative Polis: Mutual Recognition Among Detainees; Conclusion; References; 3: Power and Resistance. Everyday Resistance to Immigration Detention; Conceptualising Power and Resistance; Conceptualising Detainee Resistances; Tangible Functions; Existential Functions; Detainee Analyses; Secret Camps; Asylum Seekers Portrayed as Criminals, Terrorists and a Threat; Political Capital and Deterrence; Strategy; Farshid and Shahin; Dr Aamer Sultan; Legal Strategy; Medical Strategy; Media Strategy.
- Post-Detention Activism Conclusion; References; 4: Escape; Escape as Civil Disobedience; Woomera Detention Centre; Curtin Detention Centre; Port Hedland Detention Centre; Criminal Charges; Judicial Responses; Rights as a Criminal; Escape as Escape; Tariq's Story; Conclusion; Bibliography; Court Cases; 5: Hunger Strike, Lip Sewing and Self-harm; Hunger Strike and Self-harm in Australian Detention Centres; The Story of One Hunger Strike: Woomera Detention Centre, January 2002; Reading Refugee Protest; A Brief History of Hunger Strikes; Emotion and Political Action.
- The Politics of Personal Despair Individual and Collective Action; Embodying and Rejecting a Corporeal State; Communicative Acts; Conclusion; Bibliography; 6: Riot; The Story of One Riot: Woomera Detention Centre, August 2000; The Structure of a Riot; Naming a 'Riot'; Understanding Riots; General Pre-conditions; Long- or Deeply-Held Grievances; No Access to Redress; Generalised Hostile Beliefs; Close Proximity and Communication; Breakdown in Authority-Community Relations; Immediate Pre-conditions; Precipitating Incident: The Trigger.
- Communication and Exceptional Norm Building Mobilisation and Escalation; Policing the Riot; Conclusion; Bibliography; Court Cases; 7: Immigration Detention Globally; Categorisation-Who Gets Detained?; Duration; Harmful Effects of Prolonged Detention; Conditions; Getting Out of Detention; Detention as Arbitrary and Lacking Safeguards; Detainee Resistance; Conclusion; References; 8: Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix: Details of Interview Participants; Index.