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Policing Undocumented Migrants : Law, Violence and Responsibility.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317096344
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.1/370994
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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.

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.

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