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Author Smith, Evan, 1981- author.

Title Race, gender and the body in British immigration control : subject to examination / Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo, Flinders University, Australia
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages)
Series Migration, diasporas and citizenship
Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
Contents Cover ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1 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 ; Works Cited ; Index
Summary "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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Women immigrants -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Women immigrants -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century
Virginity -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
Political control & freedoms -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Migration, immigration & emigration -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Gender studies: women -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Black & Asian studies -- c 1970 to c 1980 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Women immigrants
Women immigrants -- Government policy
Political control & freedoms -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1970 to c 1979.
Migration, immigration & emigration -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1970 to c 1979.
Gender studies: women & girls -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1970 to c 1979.
Ethnic studies -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1970 to c 1979.
Politics and Government.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
South Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Subject Great Britain
South Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Marmo, Marinella, author.
ISBN 9781137280442
1137280441
9781137280435
1137280433