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care and cruelty in Australia's asylum seeker prisons
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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Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2022