In this dissertation I add nuance to our understanding of the experiences of immigration enforcement by exploring it in terms of the concept of 'dignity.' I draw on interviews with women who were either detained in an Immigration Removal Centre at the point I met them, or had been previously. I used interviews as the main method of data collection and my research spanned three research sites: Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre, The UK community, and Jamaica. I asked the participants about their experiences during and after detention, and for their own interpretations of the concept of dignity. I then used these definitions to make sense of their experiences. Resultingly, two key issues have been addressed in my research: how women subject to immigr...
European states have adopted strict migration policies, such as unlimited detention in Britain, to a...
Less than 10% of migrants in immigration detention in the UK are women, despite high-profile cases s...
The British state has introduced increasingly restrictive immigration legislation in recent years, a...
In this article, I set out to define dignity in immigration detention and beyond. Throughout this pi...
Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border control ...
This chapter draws on six months of fieldwork in IRC Yarl’s Wood, Britain’s primary immigration remo...
In this article we draw on research conducted in a British immigration removal centre (IRC) to explo...
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anoma...
Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border control...
YesRecent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border contr...
In this article-based dissertation, I present three distinct but interrelated articles to expose the...
Immigration detention and deportation are being increasingly utilised in many countries as key state...
Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) are deeply contested institutions that rarely open their doors to...
In this paper I draw on qualitative material from the first complete data set of the ‘Measure of the...
This thesis explores the racist and sexist redefinition, regulation, and dehumanisation of refugee a...
European states have adopted strict migration policies, such as unlimited detention in Britain, to a...
Less than 10% of migrants in immigration detention in the UK are women, despite high-profile cases s...
The British state has introduced increasingly restrictive immigration legislation in recent years, a...
In this article, I set out to define dignity in immigration detention and beyond. Throughout this pi...
Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border control ...
This chapter draws on six months of fieldwork in IRC Yarl’s Wood, Britain’s primary immigration remo...
In this article we draw on research conducted in a British immigration removal centre (IRC) to explo...
This paper argues that immigration detention results in immigration detainees being treated as anoma...
Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border control...
YesRecent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border contr...
In this article-based dissertation, I present three distinct but interrelated articles to expose the...
Immigration detention and deportation are being increasingly utilised in many countries as key state...
Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) are deeply contested institutions that rarely open their doors to...
In this paper I draw on qualitative material from the first complete data set of the ‘Measure of the...
This thesis explores the racist and sexist redefinition, regulation, and dehumanisation of refugee a...
European states have adopted strict migration policies, such as unlimited detention in Britain, to a...
Less than 10% of migrants in immigration detention in the UK are women, despite high-profile cases s...
The British state has introduced increasingly restrictive immigration legislation in recent years, a...