Inside Immigration Detention

Liam Fenn, Sociology This book is not only a must read for undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in migration and detention, but also for policy-makers responsible for redressing the current imbalance between confinement, autonomy and opportunities for self-realisation.

Paul Mutsaers, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books One of the (many) merits of this book is that it persuasively demonstrates that big theories and grand concepts break down under ethnographic scrutiny.

Times Higher Education Inside Immigration Detention challenges many assumptions that underpin migration policy and deserves a wide readership.

Dr. Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill and formerly Cantre Manager of IRC Morton Hall Immigration detention has become an enlarged and permanent feature of the carceral landscape. Mary Bosworth's work provides the most extensive account yet of the inner life of removal centres. Her research sensitively and powerfully explores the critical issues for detainees, administrators, policy makers, and academics. This is an essential book for all those with an interest in migration and detention.

Hindpal Singh Bhui, Inspection Team Leader, HM Inspectorate of Prisons The book is rich in detail about the multi-layered real lives of detainees. It is both academically rigorous and moving, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of the complex stories behind immigration detention.

Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, UK Written with honesty, humanity and passion, this moving and detailed account of life in immigration detention is based on sustained immersion and painstaking research, often conducted in several languages. It is revealing, and in places, heartbreaking. Its key themes- of identity, estrangement, and ambivalence in an area of mass mobility and disputed citizenship- are urgent and profound. Like the detention centres it describes, the book is 'deeply troubling', yet the author succeeds in her challenge of writing an account that is at once vivid, critical, and constructive.

Mary Bosworth, Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology, Monash University Australia, Mary Bosworth is Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford, and concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She works on race, gender, and citizenship in prisons and immigration detention. Her books include Engendering Resistance (1999), The US Federal Prison System (2002), and Explaining US Imprisonment (2010). Mary is Director of Border Criminologies http: //bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk, an interdisciplinary research group in Oxford, and UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology. She is currently leading a 5-year European Starting Grant, 'Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power' as well as a 3-year Leverhulme International Research Network on External Border Control.

Introduction: Inside Immigration Detention ; 1. The Historical Development of Immigration Detention in Britain ; 2. Understanding Detention ; 3. Recognition and Belonging in an Age of Deportation ; 4. Everyday Life in Detention ; 5. The Detention Community ; 6. Uncertainty, Identity, and Power in Detention ; 7. Ambivalence and Estrangement in Detention ; Conclusion: Irrevocably Foreign?