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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816836903321

Autore

Smith E

Titolo

Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control [[electronic resource] ] : Subject to Examination / / by E. Smith, M. Marmo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-137-28044-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2602

Classificazione

POL003000POL035010SOC007000SOC031000SOC032000

Disciplina

325.41

Soggetti

Sociology

Human body—Social aspects

Ethnicity

Political science

Crime—Sociological aspects

Emigration and immigration

Gender Studies

Sociology of the Body

Ethnicity Studies

Political Science

Crime and Society

Migration

Great Britain Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century

South Asia Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Decolonisation and the Creation of the British Immigration Control System; 2 The Border as a Filter: Maintaining the Divide in the Post-Imperial Era; 3 Reorienting the South Asian Female Body: The Practice of Virginity Testing and the Treatment of Migrant Women; 4 Deny, Normalise and Obfuscate: The Government Response to the Virginity Testing Practice and Other Physical Abuses; 5 The Postcolonial World Stage:



Immigration and Britain's International Reputation

6 Discrimination by Other Means: Further Restrictions on Migrant Women and Children Under the ConservativesConclusion; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at the border is uncovered.