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Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or illegal immigrants? In this bold and original intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centers offer a window onto societys broader attitudes towards immigrants.


Despite periodic media scandals, remarkably little has been written about the everyday workings of the grassroots immigration system, or about the people charged with enacting immigration policy at local levels. Detention, particularly, is a hidden side of border politics, despite its growing international importance as a tool of control and security. This book fills the gap admirably, analyzing the everyday encounters between officers and immigrants in detention to explore broad social trends and theoretical concerns.


This highly topical book provides rare insights into the treatment of the other and will be essential for policy makers and students studying anthropology and sociology.

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Border Watch
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Series Editors:
Professor Vered Amit, Concordia University
and
Dr Jon P. Mitchell, University of Sussex
Recent titles:
Claiming Individuality: The Cultural Politics of Distinction
EDITED BY VERED AMIT AND NOEL DYCK
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality
VERED AMIT AND NIGEL RAPPORT
Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City
LESLIE J. BANK
In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration
THOMAS F. CARTER
On the Game: Women and Sex Work
SOPHIE DAY
Slave of Allah: Zacarias Moussaoui vs the USA
KATHERINE C. DONAHUE
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
EDITED BY THOMAS ERIKSEN, ELLEN BAL AND OSCAR SALEMINK
A History of Anthropology
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN AND FINN SIVERT NIELSEN
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives Third Edition
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology
EDITED BY THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology Third Edition
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
What Is Anthropology?
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh
KATY GARDNER
Anthropology, Development and the Post-Modern Challenge
KATY GARDNER AND DAVID LEWIS
Corruption: Anthropological Perspectives
EDITED BY DIETER HALLER AND CRIS SHORE
Anthropologys World: Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline
ULF HANNERZ
Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on HumanAnimal Interactions
SAMANTHA HURN
Culture and Well-Being: Anthropological Approaches to Freedom and Political Ethics
EDITED BY ALBERTO CORSN JIMNEZ
State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives
EDITED BY CHRISTIAN KROHN-HANSEN AND KNUT G. NUSTAD
Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader
EDITED BY ULI LINKE AND DANIELLE TAANA SMITH
Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica
PETER LUETCHFORD
The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy
MARIANNE MAECKELBERGH
The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development
EDITED BY DAVID MOSSE AND DAVID LEWIS
Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
DAVID MOSSE
Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable
EDITED BY ANDREW STRATHERN, PAMELA J. STEWART AND NEIL L. WHITEHEAD
Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production
MARUKA SVAEK
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America Second Edition
PETER WADE
Race and Sex in Latin America
PETER WADE
The Capability of Places: Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change
SANDRA WALLMAN
Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War: The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA
EDITED BY DUSTIN M. WAX
Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka
MARK P. WHITAKER
First published 2012 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road London N6 5AA - photo 1
First published 2012 by Pluto Press
345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
www.plutobooks.com
Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by
Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martins Press LLC,
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Copyright Alexandra Hall 2012
The right of Alexandra Hall to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 7453 2724 2 Hardback
ISBN 978 0 7453 2723 5 Paperback
ISBN 978 1 8496 4716 8 PDF eBook
ISBN 978 1 8496 4718 2 Kindle eBook
ISBN 978 1 8496 4717 5 EPUB eBook
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Series Preface
Anthropology is a discipline based upon in-depth ethnographic works that deal - photo 2
Anthropology is a discipline based upon in-depth ethnographic works that deal with wider theoretical issues in the context of particular, local conditions to paraphrase an important volume from the series: large issues explored in small places. This series has a particular mission: to publish work that moves away from an old-style descriptive ethnography that is strongly area-studies oriented, and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are of interest to a much wider readership, but which are nevertheless located and grounded in solid ethnographic research. If anthropology is to argue itself a place in the contemporary intellectual world, then it must surely be through such research.
We start from the question: What can this ethnographic material tell us about the bigger theoretical issues that concern the social sciences? rather than What can these theoretical ideas tell us about the ethnographic context? Put this way round, such work becomes about large issues, set in a (relatively) small place, rather than detailed description of a small place for its own sake. As Clifford Geertz once said, Anthropologists dont study villages; they study in villages.
By place, we mean not only geographical locale, but also other types of place within political, economic, religious or other social systems. We therefore publish work based on ethnography within political and religious movements, occupational or class groups, among youth, development agencies, and nationalist movements; but also work that is more thematically based on kinship, landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The series publishes four kinds of volume: ethnographic monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and shorter, polemical essays.
We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, and all parts of the world, which combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate anthropologys unique position in contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world.
Professor Vered Amit
Dr Jon P. Mitchell
Acknowledgements
First of all my sincere thanks go to all the officers staff and management at - photo 3
First of all, my sincere thanks go to all the officers, staff and management at Locksdon immigration removal centre.
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