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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hall, Alexandra (Lecturer in political science) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2012.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Immigration enforcement > Great Britain.
Émigration et immigration > Lois > Application > Grande-Bretagne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Immigration enforcement
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History > 21st century.
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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