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Summary:

The use of detention to control immigration calls into question modern states' adherence to the rule of law. Daniel Wilsher traces how modern states have come to use long-term detention without judicial control as a tool against irregular migration and as a public security measure.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The creation of immigration detention: from free movement to regulated borders in the common law world; 2. Modern immigration detention and the rise of the permanent bureaucratic enterprise; 3. International law and immigration detention: between territorial sovereignty and emerging human rights norms; 4. Negotiating detention within the European Union: redefining friends and enemies ; 5. Security and immigration detention: the problem of internment in peacetime ; 6. Global migration and the politics of immigration detention; 7.Restoring the rule of law and influencing politics: placing boundaries around detention.

Author/Creator:

Wilsher, Daniel, 1966- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Main Work:

Immigration detention law, history, politics [by Wilsher, D.]

Subjects:

Alien detention centers

Undocumented immigrants — Legal status, laws, etc.

Emigration and immigration law

Undocumented immigrants

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 23, 2018).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-375) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 396 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

K3277 .W557 2012eb

ISBNs:

9781107005761 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1090364299

Other Control Numbers:

3856017 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3856017/bord