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Book SynopsisVideo Abstract for ''Immigration Detention and Social Harm'' - Dr Michelle Peterie
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 immigrationdetention 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 a
