Dignity Women And Immigration Detention

Author : Alice Gerlach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000826333
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention written by Alice Gerlach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with women who have been in immigration detention centres, Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention demonstrates how immigration detention violates women’s sense of dignity and in doing so, causes women to suffer pains that are incongruent with the administrative purpose of immigration removal centres. The women interviewed were either detained in an Immigration Removal Centre, had spent time in this centre before being released into the UK community, or had been removed to Jamaica following time in immigration detention. This book argues that the current system used by the UK government is unfit for purpose and damaging to many of those who are ensnared within it. In examining dignity violation, lack of autonomy and diminishment, the book also considers possible alternatives to the current practice of incarceration and what can be done to alleviate the harms that are currently inflicted on women during the process of immigration enforcement in the UK. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners in criminology, sociology, law, social policy, and all those interested in listening to the unheard voices of detained women.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 1564324559
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detained and Dismissed written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women represent an increasing share of those caught up in the fastest growing form of incarceration in the United States: immigration detention. Human Rights Watch research in detention facilities in FLorida, Arizona, and Texas found that these women, held for periods ranging from a few days to several months or even years, often have limited access to adequate basic health care"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Mary Bosworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199675473
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Immigration Detention written by Mary Bosworth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As states around the globe detain foreigners in greater numbers, a critical, academic examination of the social and cultural world of immigration detention centres is long overdue. This groundbreaking study based on extensive fieldwork in the British system unveils the world of immigration detention - its culture, politics, and impact on detainees.

Author : Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580300582
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locking Up Family Values written by Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On any given day the U.S. government has the capacity to detain over 600 men, women, and children apprehended as family units along the U.S. border and within the interior of the country. The detention of families expanded dramatically in 2006 with the opening of the new 512-bed T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. Although Hutto has become the centerpiece of a major expansion of immigration detention in America, it builds on and further institutionalizes many of the practices established at the smaller Berks Family Shelter Care Facility in Leesport, Pa., where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained a small number of families since 2001. The recent increase in family detention represents a major shift in the U.S. government's treatment of families in immigration proceedings. Prior to the opening of Hutto, the majority of families were either released together from detention or separated from each other and detained individually. Children were place in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Division for Unaccompanied Children's Services, and parents were detained in adult facilities.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress Avenue Bridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shannon Speed
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653133
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incarcerated Stories written by Shannon Speed and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention, and human trafficking. Speed dubs this vulnerability "neoliberal multicriminalism" and identifies its relation to settler structures of Indigenous dispossession and elimination. Using innovative ethnographic practices to record and recount stories from Indigenous women in U.S. detention, Speed demonstrates that these women's vulnerability to individual and state violence is not rooted in a failure to exercise agency. Rather, it is a structural condition, created and reinforced by settler colonialism, which consistently deploys racial and gender ideologies to manage the ongoing business of occupation and capitalist exploitation. With sensitive narration and sophisticated analysis, this book reveals the human consequences of state policy and practices throughout the Americas and adds vital new context for understanding the circumstances of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

Author : Michael J. Flynn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785368060
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Immigration Detention written by Michael J. Flynn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration detention is an important global phenomenon increasingly practiced by states across the world in which human rights violations are commonplace. Challenging Immigration Detention introduces readers to various disciplines that have addressed immigration detention in recent years and how these experts have sought to challenge underlying causes and justifications for detention regimes. Contributors provide an overview of the key issues addressed in their disciplines, discuss key points of contention, and seek out linkages and interactions with experts from other fields.

Author : Jane Juffer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000859134
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from Inside a U.S. Detention Center written by Jane Juffer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, ‘Carla’ was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center. Her letters provide a powerful and unique account of a queer woman’s experience inside America’s asylum system. Letters from Inside a U.S. Detention Center reconstructs Carla’s story from the correspondence between Carla and Jane Juffer, a professor at Cornell University, and from excerpts from the legal decisions made while she was being held in immigration detention. Contextualised with explanation and analysis of detention in the United States, the book examines how detention exacerbates the trauma many migrants experience and becomes another site of fear, intimidation, and uncertainty. Carla’s narrative is a powerful story, and one that illustrates grievous injustices in the U.S. immigration and asylum system. The book will be of immense value to immigration activists and scholars alike, especially in feminist studies, queer studies, and those studying the intersections of prisons and detention centres.

Author : Daniel Wilsher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501356
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration Detention written by Daniel Wilsher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liberal legal ideal of protection of the individual against administrative detention without trial is embodied in the habeas corpus tradition. However, the use of detention to control immigration has gone from a wartime exception to normal practice, thus calling into question modern states' adherence to the rule of law. Daniel Wilsher traces how modern states have come to use long-term detention of immigrants without judicial control. He examines the wider emerging international human rights challenge presented by detention based upon protecting 'national sovereignty' in an age of global migration. He explores the vulnerable political status of immigrants and shows how attempts to close liberal societies can create 'unwanted persons' who are denied fundamental rights. To conclude, he proposes a set of standards to ensure that efforts to control migration, including the use of detention, conform to principles of law and uphold basic rights regardless of immigration status.

Author : Hanna Gros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "I Didn't Feel Like a Human in There" written by Hanna Gros and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The report] documents how people in immigration detention, including those fleeing persecution and seeking protection in Canada, are regularly handcuffed, shackled, and held with little to no contact with the outside world. With no set release date, they can be held for months or years. Many are held in provincial jails with the regular jail population and are often subjected to solitary confinement. Those with psychosocial disabilities - or mental health conditions - experience discrimination throughout the process."--Publisher website.