Louise Boon-Kuo

Policing Undocumented Migrants

Law, Violence and Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the framework in which migration control operates as policing. It empirically examines migration as policing in five Australian migration control contexts, then concludes by exploring the potential for conceptualising migration policing beyond the bounded national framework.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781472435019
• ISBN-10: 147243501X
• Artikelnr.: 48914130

Autorenporträt

Louise Boon-Kuo is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. Louise researches in the areas of border policing, race and criminal justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: migrant illegality in legal records
1 Borders of responsibility
2 'You're just kidnapped': immigration 'arrests' and detention
3 Raids, searches and rapid removals
4 'Mums', 'mafia' and 'ransom money': release from immigration detention
5 Profiling bad character
Conclusion: 'the umbrella of legality'
Bibliography
Index