Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention
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Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention by Alice Gerlach
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, Gerlach demonstrates how immigration detention violates women's sense of dignity and considers possible alternatives to the current practice of incarceration.‘In this empirically rich account, Alice Gerlach offers extensive evidence of the ways in which immigration detention erodes women’s sense of dignity and self-worth during their confinement and long afterwardsAs the use of detention continues to contract in the UK in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, this book spurs us on to roll back this practice altogether. The women’s accounts, which have been sensitively gathered, illuminate the deep pain this practice causes, and its long-term effects.’
Professor Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
‘Within the increasing academic literature on border criminology, there remains limited empirical research on immigration detention, and less still on women’s experiences. Alice Gerlach’s book expertly addresses this substantial gap in knowledge. Drawing on the concept of dignity, this valuable addition to the literature unfolds women’s experiences of the pains of immigration detention, and the challenges of social reintegration following deportation.’
Dr Hindpal Singh Bhui, HM Inspectorate of Prisons Inspector & Visiting Professor, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
Alice Gerlach is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781032410814 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032410817 |
| Title | Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention |
| Author | Alice Gerlach |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Criminal Justice Borders And Citizenship |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-12-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |