Race, gender and the body in British immigration control subject to examination / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Smith, Evan.
• 其他作者：
  • Marmo, Marinella.
• 出版： Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan :[distributor] Not Avail
• 版本：1st ed.
• 叢書名： Migration, diasporas and citizenship
• 主題： Women immigrants--Abuse of--History--20th century--great Britain. , Black & Asian studies--c 1970 to c 1980--United Kingdom, Great Britain. , Gender studies: women--c 1970 to c 1980--United Kingdom, Great Britain. , Migration, immigration & emigration--c 1970 to c 1980--United Kingdom, Great Britain. , Political control & freedoms--c 1970 to c 1980--United Kingdom, Great Britain. , Politics and Government. , Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century. , South Asia--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
• ISBN： 1137280441 (electronic bk.): £65.00 、 9781137280435 、 9781137280442 (electronic bk.): £65.00
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: 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. Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137280435.
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• 摘要註: This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at the border is uncovered. An important and revelatory study of a shameful episode in 20th century British immigration history that was shaped by Imperial racism. - Alan Travis, Home Affairs Editor, The Guardian It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of Smith and Marmo's study. Their chilling documentation of abuses permitted - and vigorously denied - by the Home Office represents feminist scholarship at its best. - Philippa Levine, Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, US This historical study examines the intertwining of 'race', gender and the body in the application of immigration controls in Britain since the 1970s. Drawing on research in British Government archives, 'Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control' begins with the shocking case of virginity testing of a 35 year old woman, who arrived at Heathrow Airport, London in 1979 to marry her fiance. Smith and Marmo unpick these obscene practices as symptomatic of the de-humanising treatment of migrants from the former colonies and the dense racialized, sexual politics of British border controls. Crucially, Smith and Marmo also explore the incredible resistance of South Asian women and anti-deportation activists against the discriminatory practices of the British state. This important new history of immigration control speaks directly to the contemporary situation of border securitisation in Britain and beyond. It will be of interest to, and will be widely read by all interested in migration, citizenship, human rights, post-colonial migration, and histories of resistance to unjust border controls. - Dr Imogen Tyler, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK.
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