Yasmin Ibrahim

Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders (eBook, PDF)

Hostility and 'Unmaking' the Human

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe. Of interest to researchers of migration, humanitarianism, geography, global development, sociology and communication studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000543490
• Artikelnr.: 63128634

Autorenporträt

Yasmin Ibrahim is Professor in Digital Economy and Culture at Queen Mary, University of London. Her ongoing research on new media technologies explores the cultural dimensions and social implication of the diffusion of ICTs in different contexts and its implications for humanity. She also writes extensively on race, migration, border controls, Islam and terrorism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Borders and Non-Hominization: Hostility and Unmaking of the Human 2. The Migrant 'Other': Animality, Monstrosity and Non-Hominization 3. Calais at the Margins of Civilization: The Jungle and the Racialized 'Migrant' 4. Migrant Channel Crossings: Death, Drowning and 'Invasions' in Boats 5. Immigration Incarceration and Detention Estates: Languishing Bodies, Entrapment and Resistance 6. 'Razor-Wire and Abject Flesh': Wounded Bodies, Trauma and the 'Migrant Crisis' 7. Children of the 'Jungle': The Child Refugee and the Hostile Environment 8. The Vietnamese 'Box(ed)' People: Entombment, Lorry Deaths and Irregular Migration 9. Conclusion: Empire, Hostility and the Other