Visiting Immigration Detention
eBook - ePub

Visiting Immigration Detention

Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Visiting Immigration Detention

Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Series Preface
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction: Studying Immigration Detention
  11. 1 Immigration Detention in Australia
  12. 2 Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons
  13. 3 Bureaucratic Violence
  14. 4 Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment
  15. 5 Care and Resistance
  16. 6 Forced Relocations
  17. 7 Reverberating Harms
  18. Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index