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Autore |
Smith E |
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Titolo |
Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control : Subject to Examination / / by E. Smith, M. Marmo |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2014.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Collana |
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Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, , 2662-2610 |
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POL003000POL035010SOC007000SOC031000SOC032000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex |
Human body - Social aspects |
Race |
Political science |
Crime - Sociological aspects |
Emigration and immigration |
Gender Studies |
Sociology of the Body |
Race and Ethnicity Studies |
Political Science |
Crime and Society |
Human Migration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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