Border watch : cultures of immigration, detention and control / Alexandra Hall.
Material type: TextSeries: Anthropology, culture and societyPublication details: London : Pluto Press ; 2012Description: vii, 199 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9780745327242Subject(s): 2000 - 2099 | Immigration enforcement -- Great Britain | Alien detention centers -- Great Britain | Illegal aliens -- Great Britain | Alien detention centers | Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Illegal aliens | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 353.4840941Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Textual Documents | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata | 353.4840941 H1401b (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | G4696 |
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Gifted by Abhijit Guha.(ICSSR Senior Fellow)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index.
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.
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 window onto society's broader attitudes towards immigrants. Despite periodic media scandals, remarkably little has been written about the everyday workings of the grassroots immigration system, or about the people charged with enacting immigration policy at local levels. Detention, particularly, is a hidden side of border politics, despite its growing international importance as a tool of control and security. This book fills the gap admirably, analysing the everyday encounters between officers and immigrants in detention to explore broad social trends and theoretical concerns.
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