Activism and the Detention of Migrants - The Law and Politics of Immigration Detention

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

List of contents

Prologue 1
1 Introduction 8
2 Immigration Detention and Anti-Detention Activism 39
3 Representation and Post-Representational Politics 71
4 Post-Representational Solidarity in Anti-Detention Protest 107
5 The Hospitality Politics of Immigration Detention Visiting 138
6 Post-Representational Witnessing in the Anti-Detention Movement 164
7 Accountability and Affinity in Post-Representational Politics 194
8 Conclusion 216
Acknowledgements 227
Index 228

About the author

Tom Kemp is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Kemp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032029290
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3202929-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Social Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, LAW / Discrimination, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Colonialism & imperialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Migration, immigration and emigration, Legal aspects of criminology, Colonialism and imperialism, Social Law, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Human rights, civil rights, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminology: legal aspects, Asylum Law, Social law and Medical law