Border watch : cultures of immigration, detention and control / / Alexandra Hall.
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 intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a window onto...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthropology, culture, and society
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| Physical Description: | vii, 199 p. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of 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.