Visiting Immigration Detention: Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons

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Michelle Peterie (The University of Sydney)

Visiting Immigration Detention

Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons

Michelle Peterie (The University of Sydney)

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Bristol University Press
01 August 2022

Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociology

Series: Global Migration and Social Change

Michelle Peterie's revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention.

Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia's onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee.

As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia's onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.

By: Michelle Peterie (The University of Sydney)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529226607
ISBN 10: 1529226600
Series: Global Migration and Social Change
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 01 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michelle Peterie is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney.

Reviews for Visiting Immigration Detention: Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons

""The author’s presentation of visitor’s experiences offers a penetrating and insightful account of the various practices through which harm is inflicted in Australia’s onshore detention facilities, who is affected by such practices, and the reasons these practices are perpetuated."" Ethnic and Racial Studies