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001 2014019773
003 DLC
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008 140612s2014 enk 000 0 eng
010 $a 2014019773
020 $a9781137280435 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aJV7684$b.S65 2014
082 00 $a325.41$223
084 $aPOL003000$aPOL035010$aSOC007000$aSOC031000$aSOC032000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSmith, Evan,$d1981-
245 10 $aRace, gender and the body in British immigration control :$bsubject to examination /$cEvan Smith and Marinella Marmo, Flinders University, Australia.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $aix, 196 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aMigration, diasporas and citizenship
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
520 $a"Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control provides the most detailed account of the virginity testing controversy in the late 1970s, and demonstrates that this abusive practice, which was endured by South Asian women for more than a decade, was part of a wider culture of mistreatment and discrimination that occurred within the immigration system authorized by the state. Using recently opened government documents, Smith and Marmo offer a unique insight into this matter and uncover the extent to which these women were scrutinized, interrogated and subject to physical examination at the border. Combining cutting edge criminological theory and historical research, this book proposes that the contemporary British immigration control system should be viewed as an attempt to replicate colonial hierarchies upon migrants in the post-imperial era. For this reason, the abuses of human rights at the border became a secondary issue to the need of the post-imperial British nation-state to enforce strict immigration controls"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aWomen immigrants$xGovernment policy$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWomen immigrants$zSouth Asia$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aSouth Asia$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aVirginity$xPolitical aspects$zGreat Britain.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aMarmo, Marinella.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/435/9781137280435/image/lgcover.9781137280435.jpg