Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control - Subject to Examination

"Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control provides the most detailed account of the virginity testing controversy in the late 1970s, and demonstrates that this abusive practice, which was endured by South Asian women for more than a decade, was part of a wider culture of mistreatment and discrimination that occurred within the immigration system authorized by the state. Using recently opened government documents, Smith and Marmo offer a unique insight into this matter and uncover the extent to which these women were scrutinized, interrogated and subject to physical examination at the border. Combining cutting edge criminological theory and historical research, this book proposes that the contemporary British immigration control system should be viewed as an attempt to replicate colonial hierarchies upon migrants in the post-imperial era. For this reason, the abuses of human rights at the border became a secondary issue to the need of the post-imperial British nation-state to enforce strict immigration controls"--

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: M Marmo, M. Marmo, Marinella Marmo, Smith, Smith, E Smith, E. Smith, Evan Smith, Evan Marmo Smith, Smith E.
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.07.2014
• EAN: 9781137280435
• ISBN: 978-1-137-28043-5
• Pagine: 196
• Serie: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship; Migration, Diasporas and Citiz; Migration, Diasporas and Citiz; Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Studi di genere (gender studies); Migration, B, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Political science & theory, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnicity, Crime & criminology, Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Crime—Sociological aspects, Crime and Society, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Human Migration