Detaining the immigrant other: global and transnational issues

241 Pages·2016·1.905 MB·English

by  Epps, Douglas, Furman, Rich, Lamphear, Greg

Detaining the Immigrant Other

Detaining
the Immigrant Other
Global and Transnational Issues
EDITED BY RICH FURMAN, DOUGLAS EPPS,
 and
GREG LAMPHEAR
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Furman, Rich, editor. | Epps, Douglas, editor. | Lamphear, Greg, editor.
Title: Detaining the immigrant other: global and transnational issues /edited by Rich Furman,
Douglas Epps, & Greg Lamphear.
Description: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015030021 | ISBN 9780190222574 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. | Emigration and immigration law. |
Refugees—Legal status, laws, etc.
Classification: LCC JV6225 .D48 2016 | DDC 325/.1—dc23
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Rich’s Dedication:
To Sugs,
Eat the world baby. Eat the world.
Doug’s Dedication:
To my family,
Especially Marie, for supporting me even when you didn’t want to,
Liam, for inspiring me from day one (Daddy loves you),
and all who’ve encouraged me to keep pushing on.
Greg’s Dedication:
To my sons Everett and Theodore

CONTENTS
Contributors ix
1. Introduction: Global and Transnational Issues 1
Rich Furman, Douglas Epps, and Greg Lamphear
2. Pressured into Deportation? Detainees’ (Un)willingness to “Return”
and the Moderating Influence of International Relations 15
Arjen Leerkes and Mieke Kox
3. LGBTI Migrants in a Global World 27
Shana Tabak
4. Immigration Detention in Malaysia: The State Monopoly
of (In)security 39
Sasagu Kudo
5. The Northwest Detention Center: A Nexus
of the Immigration Debate 53
Rich Furman, Dafney Blanca Dabach, Alissa R. Ackerman,
David Androff, Douglas Epps, Susanna Jones, and Melody Loya
6. Migration Detention in Mexico: Human Rights Denied 67
Sonja Wolf
7. Immigration Detention in Greece and the UK 79
Mary Bosworth and Andriani Fili
8. Detaining Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Indonesia 91
Antje Missbach
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9. Detaining the Immigrant Other in Hong Kong 105
Gordon Mathews and Chee Wai- chi
10. Transnational Migration and Control: Immigration Detention
on the Edge of Europe 117
Ċetta Mainwaring
11. Trapped to the Local: The Effects of Immigration Detention
in France 129
Stefan Le Courant and Carolina Kobelinsky
12. Harm and Accountability in Transnational Detention
Environments: The Case of Australia’s Extraterritorial
Processing of Asylum Seekers 141
Tania Penovic and Azadeh Dastyari
13. From “Guesthouses” to Removal Centers: Europeanization
of Immigrant Detention in Turkey 155
Nurcan Ozgur Baklacioglu
14. Deportation as a Way of Life for Young Afghan Men 169
Shahram Khosravi
15. Immigration Detention in South Africa: The View
from Inside Lindela 183
Rebecca Sutton
16. “They Cut Your Wings over Here … You Can’t Do Nothing”:
Voices of Children and Parents Held in Immigration Detention
in Canada 195
Rachel Kronick, Cécile Rousseau, and Janet Cleveland
Index 209
CONTRIBUTORS
Alissa R. Ackerman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the
University of Washington Tacoma. Her research on the management of sexual
offenders has appeared in Criminal Justice & Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice,
and Justice Quarterly.
David Androff, Ph.D., is assistant professor in the School of Social Work at
Arizona State University, where he chairs the Policy, Administration, and
Community Program and teaches classes in community practice, social policy,
and global social welfare. He has published widely on immigration- related issues.
Nurcan Ozgur Baklacioglu, Ph.D., is associate professor in international
relations, at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Science. During the 1990s
she studied minority issues, migration politics, cross- border politics, and dual
citizenship issues in Macedonia, Kosovo, Turkey, and Bulgaria.
Dafney Blanca Dabach, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of
Washington’s College of Education. Her research is situated in the field of
immigration and education, with particular attention to examining secondary-
school- based contexts that immigrant youths encounter in U.S. schools.
Mary Bosworth, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross
College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology
at Monash University, Australia. She is Assistant Director of the Centre for
Criminology and Director of Border Criminologies, an interdisciplinary research
group focusing on the intersections between criminal justice and border control.
Janet Cleveland, is a member of the Équipe de recherche et d’intervention
transculturelles (ERIT) CSSS de la Montagne, McGill University. Since 2003,
she has conducted research on the impact of Canadian and Quebec public policies
on the rights and health of asylum seekers and refugees.
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