Punish and Expel
Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of the Prison
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 June 2015
- ISBN 9780198712602
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 223x152x21 mm
- Weight 452 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Provides a rare glimpse of life inside British prisons, where non-citizens are increasingly segregated from the rest of the penal population. Using first-hand testimonies from prisoners, prison staff, and high-level policy makers, it describes how a national scandal led to policies that have transformed prisons into sites for border control.
MoreLong description:
In 2006, after a scandal that gripped the country, the British government began to transform its prison system. Under pressure to find and expel foreigners, Her Majesty's Prison Service began concentrating non-citizens in prisons with 'embedded' border agents. Today, prison officers refer anyone suspected of being foreign to immigration authorities and prisoners facing deportation are detained in special prisons devoted to confining non-citizens. Those who cannot be deported linger, sometimes for years, indefinitely detained behind prison walls. The British approach to foreign nationals reflects a broader trend in punishment. Over the past decade, penal institutions across England, the United States, and Western Europe have become key sites for border control.
Offering the first comprehensive account of the imprisonment of non-citizens in the United Kingdom, Punish and Expel: Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of the Prison draws on extensive empirical data, based on fieldwork in five men's prisons, to explore the relationship between punishment and citizenship. Using first-hand testimonies from hundreds of prisoners, prison officers, and high-level policy makers, it describes how prisons create a national identity and goes inside citizenship classes and 'all-foreign' prisons, documenting the treatment of non-citizens by other prisoners and staff. Passionately argued and meticulously researched, Punish and Expel links prisons to the history of British colonialism and the contemporary politics of race, whilst challenging readers to rethink their approach to prisons, and to the people held inside them.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Global Prison
The Prison and The State
Bearing Witness
Hubs and Spokes
Making Citizens
The Queen's English
Political Amnesia
The Bodily Remainder
Conclusion
