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This study of immigration detention policy in Australia presents first-hand accounts of more than 70 people visiting and supporting asylum seekers. Documenting and theorising their experiences and treatment, it delivers new perspectives on the profound human costs of hardline immigration policy, bot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterie, Michelle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Global migration and social change.
Temas:
Noncitizen detention centers > Australia.
Illegal immigration > Australia.
Centres de détention (Immigration) > Australie.
Immigration clandestine > Australie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Illegal immigration
Noncitizen detention centers
Australia > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Australie > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
Australia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series
  • Visiting Immigration Detentio: Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Preface
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Studying Immigration Detention
  • The veil of secrecy
  • Detention as deterrence
  • The study
  • Outline of the book
  • 1 Immigration Detention in Australia
  • Hannah's story
  • The imperative to act
  • The evolution of Australia's asylum seeker policies
  • From White Australia to multiculturalism
  • The introduction of indefinite mandatory detention
  • Howard's Pacific Solution
  • Labor's new politics of 'compassion'
  • Operation Sovereign Borders
  • The anguish offshore
  • The onshore system
  • Medical evacuations
  • Support for people seeking asylum
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons
  • Elizabeth's story
  • Immigration prisons
  • The pains of imprisonment
  • Referred pains
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Bureaucratic Violence
  • Moina's story
  • The totality of the institution
  • Visitor application processes
  • Visitor entrance procedures
  • Approaching the facilities
  • Submitting to security screening
  • The admission of gifts
  • The admission of food
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment
  • Kylie's story
  • Immigration detention and harm
  • Inside the visiting room
  • Everyday visits
  • Communal celebrations
  • Death by a thousand cuts
  • Inadequate recreation
  • Reduced agency
  • Lack of certainty
  • Harm and hope(lessness)
  • Detainee pain
  • Institutional responses
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Care and Resistance
  • Paul's story
  • Theorizing resistance
  • Disrupting despair
  • Recognizing personhood
  • Affirming agency
  • Agitating for change
  • Advocating for detainees
  • Bearing witness
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Forced Relocations
  • Carole's story
  • Carceral mobility
  • The relocation process
  • 'Disappearances'
  • Being transferred
  • The human costs
  • Disruption and disorientation
  • Isolation and radiating harms
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Reverberating Harms
  • Robyn's story
  • The benefits of volunteering
  • The collateral impacts of immigration detention
  • The sociology of trauma
  • Perceived powerlessness
  • Everyday disempowerment
  • Moments of crisis
  • Ontological disruption
  • Harmful institutions
  • Complacent citizens
  • Visitor attrition
  • Visitor endurance
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Rebekah's story
  • The human costs of immigration detention
  • Plain and tacit intentionality
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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