Visiting Immigration Detention
Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons
1st Edition
Published on 26. July 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-1-5292-2661-4 (ISBN)
Description
Michelle Peterie's revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention.
Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia's onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee.
As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia's onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.
Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia's onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee.
As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia's onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.
Reviews / Votes
"The author's presentation of visitor's experiences offers a penetrating and insightful account of the various practices through which harm is inflicted in Australia's onshore detention facilities, who is affected by such practices, and the reasons these practices are perpetuated." Ethnic and Racial StudiesMore details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-2661-4 (9781529226614)
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Visiting Immigration Detention
Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons
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07/2022
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Visiting Immigration Detention
Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons
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Person
Michelle Peterie is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.
Content
Introduction: Studying Immigration Detention
Immigration Detention in Australia
Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons
Bureaucratic Violence
Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment
Care and Resistance
Forced Relocations
Reverberating Harms
Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair
Immigration Detention in Australia
Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons
Bureaucratic Violence
Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment
Care and Resistance
Forced Relocations
Reverberating Harms
Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair