Immigration detention : law, history, politics
"The liberal legal ideal of protection of the individual against administrative detention without trial is embodied in the habeas corpus tradition. However, the use of detention to control immigration has gone from a wartime exception to normal practice, thus calling into question modern states...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The creation of immigration detention : from free movement to regulated borders in America and the United Kingdom
- 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