Activism and the Detention of Migrants

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

Autorentext

Tom Kemp is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Inhalt

Prologue 1

1 Introduction 8

2 Immigration Detention and Anti-Detention Activism 39

3 Representation and Post-Representational Politics 71

4 Post-Representational Solidarity in Anti-Detention Protest 107

5 The Hospitality Politics of Immigration Detention Visiting 138

6 Post-Representational Witnessing in the Anti-Detention Movement 164

7 Accountability and Affinity in Post-Representational Politics 194

8 Conclusion 216

Acknowledgements 227

Index 228