‘These People Could Be Anyone’: Fear, Contempt (and Empathy) in a British Immigration Removal Centre

Hall, Alexandra

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“…Selv om laererne udtrykker sig kritisk om, at de på linje med børnene kategoriseres som saerlige asyllaerere og holdes fysisk adskilte fra almenklassernes laerere, opfatter de alligevel ikke skolens praksis som rendyrket eksklusion, men derimod som en form for 'inklusiv eksklusion' (Hall 2010, 883, Vitus 2011. Inspireret af Kathrine Vitus forstår vi 'inklusiv eksklusion' som en mekanisme, hvis gennemgående traek er "for det første, at deres beboere er frataget rettigheder -ikke kun som borgere, men også som mennesker -og for det andet at de samtidig med at stå uden for loven som politiske subjekter, er underlagt loven" (Vitus 2011, 17-18).…”

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Permanent midlertidighed – undervisning af asylsøgende børn i kommunale skoletilbudsordninger

Moldenhawer¹,

Ruskjær²

2017

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Permanent midlertidighed – undervisning af asylsøgende børn i kommunale skoletilbudsordninger

Moldenhawer¹,

Ruskjær²

2017

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“…In contrast to the long tradition of prison sociology, very little academic work has been conducted inside detention centres (Hall, 2010;Bosworth, 2012;. Instead, for the most part, academic scholarship on detention is either purely theoretical (De Genova, 2010;Silverman and Massa, 2012), is based on interviews with former detainees (Klein and Williams, 2012) or relies on information gleaned from social visits (Griffiths, 2014).…”

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“…Why were we there, they wondered and to whom were we actually reporting? Over time, Constantly enjoined to maintain emotional distance from detainees, officers like Barry were often unsure who or what to believe (Bosworth, 2014;Hall, 2010). This 'culture of mistrust' was exacerbated and underpinned, by the steep hierarchy of custodial posts, in which uniformed 'Detention custody officers' (DCOs) are positioned at the bottom and non-uniformed 'Senior Management team' (SMT) at the top.…”

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“…Before we began there was little other than reports from NGOs and the government to prepare us for what detention was like (HMIP, 2002;Phelps, 2009). Until 2010, when Alexandra Hall published an article on her doctoral research with staff in a British detention centre she refers to as 'Locksdon', there was nothing at all about detention as a research site (Hall, 2010; see also Hall, 2012).…”

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Getting In, Getting Out and Getting Back: Conducting Long-term Research in Immigration Detention Centres

Bosworth

Këllezi

2016

Reflexivity and Criminal Justice

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“…Detention facilities are physically difficult environments. Many scholars (Coffey et al, 2010;Hall, 2010;Wilder, 2007) call attention to the poor food, limited health care, sporadic or infrequent access to legal assistance, cold temperatures, and dehumanized nature of detention facilities. Detention facilities are psychologically destructive as well (McLoughlin& Warin, 2008).…”

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Countering isolation with the use of technology: how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their confinement

Coddington

Mountz

2014

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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. (2014) 'Countering isolation with use of technology : how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their con nement.', Journal of the Indian Ocean region., 10 (1). pp. 97-112. Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Governments detain asylum seekers on islands across the Indian Ocean region, including Australia's Christmas, Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, Nauru, and across the Indonesian archipelago. Scholars and advocates alike have shown that the ambiguous jurisdiction and complex legal migration statuses that emerge in these areas, as well as their remote location and isolation, contribute to their popularity as sites of migrant detention. The negative effects of isolation and remoteness on migrants' physical and mental health, as well as their legal outcomes, have been well documented (e.g. Coffey et al. 2010). We argue, however, that detainees and others are countering the effects of isolation with the use of technology. Ethnographic research conducted on the islands within Australian and Indonesian migrant detention networks suggests that asylum seekers detained in remote sites across the region are combating the isolation of detention with use of mobile phones, internet access, and social media networks. They communicate with friends, relatives, legal representatives, advocates, activists, and members of the public beyond prison walls to transmit information, facilitate advocacy inside and outside of detention facilities, and construct transnational support networks. In turn, punitive policies to discipline asylum seekers by limiting methods of communication threaten these efforts.

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‘These People Could Be Anyone’: Fear, Contempt (and Empathy) in a British Immigration Removal Centre

Cited by 79 publications

References 33 publications

Permanent midlertidighed – undervisning af asylsøgende børn i kommunale skoletilbudsordninger

Permanent midlertidighed – undervisning af asylsøgende børn i kommunale skoletilbudsordninger

Getting In, Getting Out and Getting Back: Conducting Long-term Research in Immigration Detention Centres

Countering isolation with the use of technology: how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their confinement

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