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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Global Migration and Social Change
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Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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