Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention (Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship)
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1. While there has been growing research on the topic of immigration detention in the UK, this is the first to exclusively explore the experiences of women. The focus on experiences of detention, release and removal makes for a particularly broad subject. 2. Courses on penology and punishment are popular, even core components of a Criminology degree. This book offers much needed supplementary reading on a modern form of punishment, in the form of immigration detention.
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1. While there has been growing research on the topic of immigration detention in the UK, this is the first to exclusively explore the experiences of women. The focus on experiences of detention, release and removal makes for a particularly broad subject. 2. Courses on penology and punishment are popular, even core components of a Criminology degree. This book offers much needed supplementary reading on a modern form of punishment, in the form of immigration detention.
Alice Gerlach is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Title: Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention (Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship)
Author: Gerlach, Alice
ISBN: 9781032410814
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Number of Pages: 176
Weight: 0.2301 kg
'In this empirically rich account, Alice Gerlach offers extensive evidence of the ways in which immigration detention erodes women's sense of dignity and self-worth during their confinement and long afterwards. As the use of detention continues to contract in the UK in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, this book spurs us on to roll back this practice altogether. The women's accounts, which have been sensitively gathered, illuminate the deep pain this practice causes, and its long-term effects.'
Professor Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
'Within the increasing academic literature on border criminology, there remains limited empirical research on immigration detention, and less still on women's experiences. Alice Gerlach's book expertly addresses this substantial gap in knowledge. Drawing on the concept of dignity, this valuable addition to the literature unfolds women's experiences of the pains of immigration detention, and the challenges of social reintegration following deportation.'
Dr Hindpal Singh Bhui, HM Inspectorate of Prisons Inspector & Visiting Professor, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
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