Inside immigration detention /

As states around the globe detain foreigners in greater numbers, a critical, academic examination of the social and cultural world of immigration detention centres is long overdue. This groundbreaking study based on extensive fieldwork in the British system unveils the world of immigration detention...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bosworth, Mary (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	Asylum, Right of > Great Britain. Noncitizen detention centers > Great Britain. Emigration and immigration law > Great Britain. Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Centres de détention (Immigration) > Grande-Bretagne. Droit d'asile > Grande-Bretagne > Législation. LAW > Constitutional. LAW > Public. Law. Noncitizen detention centers Asylum, Right of Emigration and immigration law Emigration and immigration > Social aspects Great Britain Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Inside immigration detention
The historical development of immigration detention in Britain
Understanding immigration detention
Recognition and belonging in an age of deportation
Everyday life in detention
The detention community
Uncertainty, identity, and power in detention
Ambivalence and estrangement in detention
Conclusion : Irrevocably foreign?