Visiting Immigration Detention : : Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons / / Michelle Peterie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Peterie, Michelle,
• MitwirkendeR: Sigona, Nando,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Global Migration and Social Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Series Preface --; Preface --; Introduction: Studying Immigration Detention --; Immigration Detention in Australia --; Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons --; Bureaucratic Violence --; Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment --; Care and Resistance --; Forced Relocations --; Reverberating Harms --; Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781529226638; 9783111196770
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michelle Peterie.

Michelle Peterie’s revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee. As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia’s onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.