Immigration Detention and Social Harm

Applying a gender and race lens to immigration detention, Immigration Detention and Social Harm argues that calls for detention reform must be replaced by bolder demands for detention abolition - positing that harm is so embedded in immigration detention systems that reform is no longer possible.

This interdisciplinary edited collection is the first internationally to comprehensively explore the harms immigration detention imposes beyond the 'detainee'. Bringing together research from North America, the UK, Europe and Australia, it shows how the harms immigration detention imposes ramify beyond singular bodies, moments and locations - reverberating through families and communities and echoing across time.The book is structured in three parts. Part One: Human Costs, examines the harms immigration detention imposes on people who are not personally incarcerated, but whose lives are nonetheless entangled with detention regimes. Part Two: Societal Consequences highlights the corrosive impacts of immigration detention at the societal level, including the role migrant incarceration plays in naturalising and perpetuating inequalities and injustices. Part Three: Ending the Harm interrogates the possibilities of detention reform and detention abolition.This book will be a key reference text for scholars and students in the social and behavioural sciences who are interested in immigration detention, human rights and/or incarceration.

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Dr Michelle Peterie is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Peterie's research investigates the impacts of social policies and practices on individual and collective wellbeing. Taking a person-centred approach and in close collaboration with research participants and third-sector stakeholders her work seeks to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, families and communities. Peterie is the author of Visiting Immigration Detention: Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons (2022), the co-author of Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? (2022), and the co-editor of Emotions in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2019). She has been invited to give expert evidence to the Australian Senate, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Crown Solicitor, and her research has received national media attention.

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Applying a gender and race lens to immigration detention, Immigration Detention and Social Harm argues that calls for detention reform must be replaced by bolder demands for detention abolition - positing that harm is so embedded in immigration detention systems that reform is no longer possible.

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Introduction: The Reverberating Harms of Immigration Detention
Michelle Peterie

Part 1: Human Costs

1. "If I Talk About It, I Start Crying": Children's Responses to Parental Immigration Imprisonment in the US
   Caitlin Patler, Gabriela Gonzalez, Monica Cardenas Guzman and Guillermo Paez Gallardo

2. Detention in the Community: Complex Ripple Effects on Young Adults in the US
   Joanna Dreby and Tsveta Dobreva

3. Bonds Strengthened, Strained, and Severed: The Effects of US Immigration Detention on Family Cohesion
   Mirian G. Martinez-Aranda and Tamara Black

4. Immigration Detention and UK Families
   Melanie Griffiths and Candice Morgan-Glendinning

5. Moral Injury in Australian Immigration Detention
   Michelle Peterie

6. UK Immigration Detention, Exhaustion and the Politics of Care
   Alexandra Hall

7. Australian Immigration Detention and its Impact on Healthcare Workers and the Australian Healthcare Community
   Ryan Essex and Erika Kalocsányiová

Part 2: Societal Consequences

8. Gender, Violence and Regimes of Vulnerability in Immigration Detention: A Transnational Analysis
   Francesca Esposito and Mary Bosworth

9. Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction
   Emily Ryo and Christopher Levesque

10. Immunised and Indifferent to Indefinite Incarceration: The Corrosive Effect of Immigration Detention Laws on Officialdom
    Peter Billings

11. Executive Control Over Immigration Detention Policy and Practice in Australia
    Amy Nethery and Cassandra Le Good

Part 3: Ending The Harm

12. Accessing Information on Immigration Detention in Canada: Towards Carceral Transparency to Reduce Social Harm
    Sarah Turnbull and Joao Velloso

13. Advancing Abolitionism: Why the Immigration Detention Industry Must End
    Victoria Canning