1st Edition
Policing Undocumented Migrants Law, Violence and Responsibility
By Louise Boon-Kuo
Copyright 2018
220 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
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Migration policing experiments such as boat turn-backs and offshore refugee processing have been criticised as unlawful and have been characterised as exceptional. Policing Undocumented Migrants explores the extraordinarily routine, powerful, and above all lawful practices engaged in policing status within state territory. This book reveals how the everyday violence of migration law is... Read more
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
Biography
Louise Boon-Kuo is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. Louise researches in the areas of border policing, race and criminal justice.
