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Visiting immigration detention : care and cruelty in Australia's asylum seeker prisons /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterie, Michelle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Series:Global migration and social change.
Subjects:
Noncitizen detention centers > Australia.
Illegal immigration > Australia.
Australia > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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