Immigration detention : law, history, politics / / Daniel Wilsher.

"The liberal legal ideal of protection of the individual against administrative detention without trial is embodied in the habeas corpus tradition. However, the use of detention to control immigration has gone from a wartime exception to normal practice, thus calling into question modern states...

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxiii, 396 p.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. The emergence of detention: from free movement to regulated boarders in the common law world; 2. Modern immigration detention: the growth of the bureaucratic enterprise in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and France; 3. International law and immigration detention: between territorial sovereignty and emerging human rights norms; 4. Immigration detention and the European Union: the supra-national dimension and the demise of territorial sovereignty?; 5. Immigration detention as a tool of public and national security: the problem of internment in modern times; 6. Global migration and the politics of immigration detention; 7. Drawing boundaries around detention: finding a principled and practical approach.