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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465658503321

Titolo

Carceral spaces : mobility and agency in imprisonment and migrant detention / / edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill, Deirdre Conlon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-16975-1

1-315-57086-6

1-317-16974-3

1-299-26345-3

1-4094-4269-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ConlonDeirdre

GillNick

MoranDominique

Disciplina

365

Soggetti

Imprisonment - Social aspects

Migration, Internal - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Mobility -- pt. II. Space and agency.

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography. It combines work by geographers on 'mainstream' penal establishments where people are incarcerated by the prevailing legal system, with geographers' recent work on migrant detention centres, where irregular migrants and 'refused' asylum seekers are detained ostensibly pending decisions on admittance or repatriation. This book presents a timely addition to emergent interdisciplinary scholarship that will prompt dialogue among those working in geography, criminology and prison sociolog