Race, gender and the body in British immigration control subject to examination / Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo, Flinders University, Australia.

Author/creator Smith, Evan, 1981-
Other author Marmo, Marinella.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Descriptionix, 196 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Women immigrants--Government policy. --Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
Women immigrants--South Asia. --History. --20th century.
Virginity--Political aspects. --Great Britain.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. --Government policy. --History. --20th century.
South Asia--Emigration and immigration. --History. --20th century.

SeriesMigration, diasporas and citizenship
Contents Machine 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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014019773
ISBN9781137280435 (hardback)

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