Visiting Immigration Detention

Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2661-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterie, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Peterie, Michelle
Michelle Peterie is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.

Michelle Peterie is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.