Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control
Language: English
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Series: Book 25 of 77 - Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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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. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ; JFSL; JHB; JKV; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270. . 2014. Paperback. . . . .
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- Title
- Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control
- Author
- Smith, E.; Marmo, Marinella
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1349447714
- ISBN 13
- 9781349447718
- Series
- Book 25 of 77: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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About the Author
Evan Smith is Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of International Studies at Flinders University, Australia. He has written widely on the British immigration control system, the politics of race in Britain and the British far left.
Marinella Marmo is Associate Professor in Criminology at Flinders University Law School, Australia. Her research interests include international criminal justice, transnational crime and comparative criminology.
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