04260nam 22008295 450 991078795920332120200919122445.01-137-28044-110.1057/9781137280442(CKB)2670000000567494(EBL)1765645(SSID)ssj0001288002(PQKBManifestationID)11725368(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288002(PQKBWorkID)11292869(PQKB)10661158(MiAaPQ)EBC1765645(DE-He213)978-1-137-28044-2(EXLCZ)99267000000056749420151028d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control[electronic resource] Subject to Examination /by E. Smith, M. Marmo1st ed. 2014.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (207 p.)Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship,2662-2602Description based upon print version of record.1-349-44771-4 1-137-28043-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Reputation6 Discrimination by Other Means: Further Restrictions on Migrant Women and Children Under the ConservativesConclusion; Works Cited; IndexThis 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.Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship,2662-2602SociologyHuman body—Social aspectsEthnicityPolitical scienceCrime—Sociological aspectsEmigration and immigrationGender Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000Sociology of the Bodyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22230Ethnicity Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22180Political Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911000Crime and Societyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B3000Migrationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X24000Great BritainEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyHistory20th centurySouth AsiaEmigration and immigrationHistory20th centurySociology.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.325.41POL003000POL035010SOC007000SOC031000SOC032000bisacshSmith Eauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut342250Marmo Mauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910787959203321Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control3849409UNINA