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Author Boon-Kuo, Louise, author

Title Policing Undocumented Migrants : Law, Violence and Responsibility / Louise Boon-Kuo
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series International and Comparative Criminal Justice
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: migrant illegality in legal records; 1 Borders of responsibility; 2 'You're just kidnapped': immigration 'arrests' and detention; 3 Raids, searches and rapid removals; 4 'Mums', 'mafia' and 'ransom money': release from immigration detention; 5 Profiling bad character; Conclusion: 'the umbrella of legality'; Bibliography; Index
Summary "Migration policing experiments such as boat turn-backs and offshore refugee processing have been criticised as unlawful and have been characterised as exceptional. Policing Undocumented Migrants explores the extraordinarily routine, powerful, and above all lawful practices engaged in policing status within state territory. This book reveals how the everyday violence of migration law is activated by making people 'illegal'. It explains how undocumented migrants are marginalised through the broad discretion underpinning existing frameworks of legal responsibility for migration policing. Drawing on interviews with people with lived experience of undocumented status within Australia, perspectives from advocates, detailed analysis of legislation, case law and policy, this book provides an in-depth account of the experiences and legal regulation of undocumented migrants within Australia. Case studies of street policing, immigration raids, transitions in legal status such as release from immigration detention, and character based visa determination challenge conventional binaries in migration analysis between the citizen and non-citizen and between lawful and unlawful status. By showing the organised and central role of discretionary legal authority in policing status, this book proposes a new perspective through which responsibility for migration legal practices can be better understood and evaluated. Policing Undocumented Migrants will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the areas of criminology, criminal law, immigration law, and border studies."--Provided by publisher
Subject Noncitizens -- Government policy -- Australia
Noncitizens -- Australia -- Social conditions
Detention of persons -- Australia
Emigration and immigration law -- Australia
Illegal immigration -- Government policy -- Australia
Illegal immigration -- Australia
Illegal immigration
Detention of persons
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Emigration and immigration law
Noncitizens -- Government policy
Noncitizens -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007506
Subject Australia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315595337
9781317096344
1315595338
1317096347