Smith, Evan
자료유형 | e-Book |
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개인저자 | Smith, Evan, 1981-, author. Marmo, Marinella, author. |
서명/저자사항 | Race, gender and the body in British immigration control :subject to examination :Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo, Flinders University, Australia. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages). |
총서사항 | Migration, diasporas and citizenship. |
총서부출표목 | Migration, diasporas and citizenship. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version Smith, Evan, 1981- Race, gender and the body in British immigration control Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 9781137280435 |
ISBN | 9781137280442 1137280441 |
내용주기 | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. 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. |
요약 | "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"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
일반주제명 | Women immigrants -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Women immigrants -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century. Virginity -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration |
주제명(지명) | Great BritainEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyHistory20th century.South AsiaEmigration and immigrationHistory20th century. |
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