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In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.

  • Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects
  • Challenges the consensus that border controls are necessary or desirable in contemporary society
  • Demonstrates how immigration decision makers are immersed in a suffocating web of institutionalized processes that greatly hinder their objectivity and limit their access to alternative perspectives
  • Theoretically informed throughout, drawing on the work of a range of social theorists, including Max Weber, Zygmunt Bauman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Simmel

Nothing Personal?: Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 12/02/2016
    ISBN13: 9781444367058, 978-1444367058
    ISBN10: 1444367056

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

    Description

    In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.

    • Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects
    • Challenges the consensus that border controls are necessary or desirable in contemporary society
    • Demonstrates how immigration decision makers are immersed in a suffocating web of institutionalized processes that greatly hinder their objectivity and limit their access to alternative perspectives
    • Theoretically informed throughout, drawing on the work of a range of social theorists, including Max Weber, Zygmunt Bauman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Simmel

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