1st Edition
Activism and the Detention of Migrants The Law and Politics of Immigration Detention
By Tom Kemp
Copyright 2024
240 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.
Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politics centres on... Read more
Prologue 1
1 Introduction 8
2 Immigration Detention and Anti-Detention Activism 39
3 Representation and Post-Representational Politics 71
4 Post-Representational Solidarity in Anti-Detention Protest 107
5 The Hospitality Politics of Immigration Detention Visiting 138
6 Post-Representational Witnessing in the Anti-Detention Movement 164
7 Accountability and Affinity in Post-Representational Politics 194
8 Conclusion 216
Acknowledgements 227
Index 228
Biography
Tom Kemp is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.
