Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, Gerlach demonstrates how immigration detention violates women's sense of dignity and considers possible alternatives to the current practice of incarceration.

Summary

This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews, Gerlach demonstrates how immigration detention violates women’s sense of dignity and considers possible alternatives to the current practice of incarceration.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Gerlach
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367422806
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42280-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Migration, immigration & emigration, Gender & the law, Migration, immigration and emigration, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies: women, Social Law, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminal justice law, Civics and citizenship, Criminology: legal aspects, Law and society, gender issues, Asylum Law, Social law and Medical law, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity