Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control [[electronic resource] ] : Subject to Examination / / by E. Smith, M. Marmo
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| Autore: |
Smith E
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| Titolo: |
Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control [[electronic resource] ] : Subject to Examination / / by E. Smith, M. Marmo
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325.41 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century |
| South Asia Emigration and immigration History 20th century | |
| Classificazione: | POL003000POL035010SOC007000SOC031000SOC032000 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MarmoM |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control |
| ISBN: | 1-137-28044-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787959203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, . 2662-2602