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Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control: Subject to Examination: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

Autor E. Smith, M. Marmo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iul 2014
This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at the border is uncovered.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137280435
ISBN-10: 1137280433
Pagini: 196
Ilustrații: IX, 196 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction 1. Decolonisation and the Creation of the British Immigration Control System 2. The Border as a Filter: Maintaining the Divide in the Post-Imperial Era 3. Reorienting the South Asian Female Body: the Practice of 'Virginity Testing' and the Treatment of Migrant Women 4. Deny, Normalise and Obfuscate: the Government Response to the Virginity Testing Practice and Other Physical Abuses 5. The Postcolonial World Stage: Immigration and Britain's International Reputation 6. Discrimination by other Means: Further Restrictions on Migrant Women and Children under the Conservatives Conclusion

Recenzii

"An important and revelatory study of a shameful episode in 20th century British immigration history that was shaped by Imperial racism." - Alan Travis, Home Affairs Editor, The Guardian
"It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of Smith and Marmo's study. Their chilling documentation of abuses permitted and vigorously denied by the Home Office represents feminist scholarship at its best." - Philippa Levine, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, US
"This historical study examines the intertwining of 'race', gender and the body in the application of immigration controls in Britain since the 1970s. Drawing on research in British Government archives, 'Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control' begins with the shocking case of virginity testing of a 35 year old woman, who arrived at Heathrow Airport, London in 1979 to marry her fiancé. Smith and Marmo unpick these obscene practices as symptomatic of the de-humanising treatment of migrants from the former colonies and the dense racialized, sexual politics of British border controls. Crucially, Smith and Marmo also explore the incredible resistance of South Asian women and anti-deportation activists against the discriminatory practices of the British state. This important new history of immigration control speaks directly to the contemporary situation of border securitisation in Britain and beyond. It will be of interest to, and willbe widely read by all interested in migration, citizenship, human rights, post-colonial migration, and histories of resistance to unjust border controls."
- Dr Imogen Tyler, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK

Notă biografică

Evan Smith is Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of International Studies at Flinders University, Australia. He has written widely on the British immigration control system, the politics of race in Britain and the British far left.

Marinella Marmo is Associate Professor in Criminology at Flinders University Law School, Australia. Her research interests include international criminal justice, transnational crime and comparative criminology.