03719nam 22008535 450 991095545520332120240307115924.09781137280442113728044110.1057/9781137280442(CKB)2670000000567494(EBL)1765645(SSID)ssj0001288002(PQKBManifestationID)11725368(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288002(PQKBWorkID)11292869(PQKB)10661158(MiAaPQ)EBC1765645(DE-He213)978-1-137-28044-2(Perlego)3485102(EXLCZ)99267000000056749420151028d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control 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,2662-2610Description based upon print version of record.9781349447718 1349447714 9781137280435 1137280433 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,2662-2610SexHuman bodySocial aspectsRacePolitical scienceCrimeSociological aspectsEmigration and immigrationGender StudiesSociology of the BodyRace and Ethnicity StudiesPolitical ScienceCrime and SocietyHuman MigrationSex.Human bodySocial aspects.Race.Political science.CrimeSociological aspects.Emigration and immigration.Gender Studies.Sociology of the Body.Race and Ethnicity Studies.Political Science.Crime and Society.Human Migration.325.41POL003000POL035010SOC007000SOC031000SOC032000bisacshSmith Eauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut342250Marmo Mauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910955455203321Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control4334487UNINA