Human Rights, Refugee Protest and Immigration Detention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights, Refugee Protest and Immigration Detention write by Lucy Fiske. This book was released on 2016-08-17. Human Rights, Refugee Protest and Immigration Detention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book builds a compelling picture of injustices inside immigration detention centers, within the context of the rise of the use of immigration detention in the Global North. The author presents the rarely heard voices of refugees, bringing their perspectives to light and personalising and humanising a global political issue. Based on in-depth interviews with formerly detained refugees who were involved in a wide range of protests, such as sit-ins and non-compliance, hunger strikes, lip sewing, escapes and riots, Human Rights, Refugee Protest and Immigration Detention presents a comprehensive insight into immigration detention and protest. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt, the book challenges contemporary human rights discourses which institutionalise power and will be a must-read for scholars, advocates and policymakers engaged in debates about immigration detention and forced migration.
Human Rights and Refugee Protest Against Detention
Human Rights and Refugee Protest Against Detention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights and Refugee Protest Against Detention write by Lucy Fiske. This book was released on 2015-04. Human Rights and Refugee Protest Against Detention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when the use of immigration detention is on the rise in the Global North, refugee protest is typically presented in the public sphere as 'bad behaviour' or as confirmation of 'their' otherness and inherent barbarity. This book goes some way in debunking this narrative in considering refugee protests against immigration detention from the perspective of detainees. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt as well as in-depth interviews with refugees, this book challenges contemporary human rights discourses which institutionalise power and argues instead, that despite the range of dehumanising policies and processes deployed against them, detained refugees remain agents and actively resist efforts to silence and exclude them.
Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception
Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception write by Kathleen R. Arnold. This book was released on 2023-08-11. Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recognizing the radical disparity between migration/border policy and constitutional law “inside these borders,” Kathleen R. Arnold focuses on two main forms of migrant protest to explore the meaning of resistance in a sovereign context: self-harming protest by detainees and faith-based sanctuary of individuals scheduled for detention. This activism creates a “democratic state of exception,” interrupting the legal process, altering discretionary forms of sovereign power, and enacting rights not formally granted; these efforts go beyond the assertion of liberal rights or merely restoring the rule of law (even if these are also goals), challenging the warfare state while constituting a demos that is formally illegible. Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception will be of interest to scholars, migrant advocacy professionals (including INGO and IGO officers), graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in a variety of fields from legal studies to forced migration and refugee studies, political science, human rights, protest history, and contemporary movements.
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights write by Emma Larking. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the West’s obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate, vitriolic, and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical, historical, and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate, and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Using the political philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant the book highlights the tension in liberalism between partiality towards one’s compatriots and the universalism of human rights and brings this tension to life through an examination of Hannah Arendt’s account of the rise and decline of the modern nation-state. It provides a novel reading of Arendt’s critique of human rights and her concept of the right to have rights. The book argues that the right to have rights must be secured globally in limited form, but that recognition of its significance should spur expansive changes to border policy within and between liberal states.
Activism and the Detention of Migrants
Activism and the Detention of Migrants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activism and the Detention of Migrants write by Tom Kemp. This book was released on 2023-12-05. Activism and the Detention of Migrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation. Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politics centres on representing the interests of disenfranchised people to the state and public and operates primarily within the regime of immigration law. Post-representational politics focuses on working collaboratively with those in detention, to resist and challenge the deportation system. Since representational politics is the predominant political imaginary of migrant rights campaigning, the book focuses on illustrating and evaluating the role of post-representational politics. The book argues that the concept of post-representational politics is important for understanding and participating in radical opposition to state racism. This argument rests on the expanded possibilities it motivates of engaging with and resisting institutions that are poised to co-opt resistance; the attention it fosters to the situated power dynamics of political activities that collaborate with imprisoned people; and its sensitivity to the politically and conceptually generative capacities of everyday, embodied practices of resistance. To make this argument, this book employs innovative methodology to illuminate and engage with the practice-based thinking of activist movements about the concepts of solidarity, hospitality, witnessing and accountability. This book will be of interest to scholars and activists with interests in socio-legal studies of immigration and refugee law, as well as others in social movement studies, critical legal studies, border criminology and critical theory.
