Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention

Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Conlon, Deirdre; Hiemstra, Nancy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a timely intervention, offering much needed scrutiny of the ideologies, policies and practices that enable the troubling, unparalleled and seemingly unbridled growth of immigration detention around the world. An international collection of scholars provide crucial new insights into immigration detention recounting at close range how detention's effects ricochet from personal and everyday experiences to broader political-economic, social and cultural spheres.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138900660
• ISBN-10: 1138900664
• Artikelnr.: 43676388

Autorenporträt

Deirdre Conlon is a Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research examines immigration enforcement and detention in policy and practice, their effects on migrant (in)security, citizenship and everyday life, as well as the wider reverberations of immigration control. Nancy Hiemstra is Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. Her research analyses the geopolitical and socio-cultural reverberations of restrictive immigration policies and practices in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on US detention and deportation.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: On the depth and importance of intimate economies
Alison Mountz
Chapter 1: Introduction: Intimate economies of immigration detention
Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra
PART 1: ENGAGING THE INTIMATE
Chapter 2: Detained beyond the sovereign: conceptualising non-state actor
involvement in immigration detention
Michael Flynn
Chapter 3: Discretion, contracting, and commodification: privatisation of
US immigration detention as a technology of government
Lauren Martin
Chapter 4: In the market of morality: international human rights standards
and the immigration detention "improvement" complex
Julia Morris
Chapter 5: Bearing witness and the intimate economies of immigration
detention centres in Australia
Caroline Fleay
Chapter 6: Managing capacity, shifting burdens: social reproduction and the
intimate economies of immigrant family detention
Jill Williams and Vanessa Massaro
Chapter 7: On exterior and interior detention regimes: governing,
bordering, and economy in transit migration across Mexico
Mario Bruzzone
PART 2: EXPOSING INTIMATE ECONOMIES
Chapter 8: Captive consumers and coerced labourers: intimate economies and
the expanding US detention regime
Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
Chapter 9: Intimate economies of ambiguity and erasure: Darwin as
Australia's 2011-2012 'capital of detention'
Kate Coddington
Chapter 10: Pocket money: everyday precarities in the Danish asylum system
Malene Jacobsen
Chapter 11: Health and intimacies in immigration detention
Nick Gill
Chapter 12: Intimate encounters with immigrant criminalisation in Arizona
Matthew Lowen
Chapter 13: Intimate economies of state practice: materialities of
detention in Finland
Anitta Kynsilehto and Eeva Puumala
Chapter 14: The pleasures of security? Visual practice and immigration
detention
Alexandra Hall
Afterword: Intimate economies, anomie and moral ambiguity
Dora Schriro