Visiting Immigration Detention - Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bristol University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Migration and Social Change
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Michelle Peterie
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-1-5292-2661-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Promotions
LSN:	1-5292-2661-9
Barcode:	9781529226614

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