Inside Immigration Detention Centres
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Post by Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. This post first appeared on the LSE blog on 4 August 2014. Mary's new book, Inside Immigration Detention (Oxford University Press, 2014), will be released in September.
As the British government holds its first public inquiry into the conditions and nature of immigration detention, it is a good time to take stock of this form of custody. These institutions are volatile and contested sites. They are also places about which we know very little. What is their goal? How are they justified? Who is detained and why? What is detention like?
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