Border watch : cultures of immigration, detention and control / Alexandra Hall.

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Hall, Alexandra (Lecturer in political science) [author.]

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TextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2012Distributor: New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press LLCCopyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781849647168
184964716X
9781849647175
1849647178
9781849647182
1849647186

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Border watch.DDC classification:

353.4840941 23

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JV7633 .H336 2012

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Contents:

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.

In: Academic LibrarySummary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index.

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.