Immigration Detention - Law, History, Politics

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Wilsher is a senior lecturer in law at City Law School, London and a part-time immigration judge in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, First Tier Tribunal. Klappentext An examination and critique of the growth of mass administrative detention of immigrants! something contrary to the rule of law. Zusammenfassung The use of detention to control immigration calls into question modern states' adherence to the rule of law. Daniel Wilsher traces how modern states have come to use long-term detention without judicial control as a tool against irregular migration and as a public security measure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The emergence of detention: from free movement to regulated borders in the common law world; 2. Modern immigration detention: the growth of the bureaucratic enterprise in United States, United Kingdom, Australia and France; 3. International law and immigration detention: between territorial sovereignty and emerging human rights norms; 4. Immigration detention and the European Union: the supra-national dimension and the demise of territorial sovereignty?; 5. Immigration detention as a tool of public and national security: the problem of internment in modern times; 6. Global migration and the politics of immigration detention; 7. Drawing boundaries around detention: finding a principled and practical approach.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Wilsher, Wilsher Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781107005761
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00576-1
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, International Law, immigration law, comparative law, Human rights, civil rights