Political Economy

Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists, and Policy-Makers

By Matthew Flynn and Michael Flynn on 19 September 2017

Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. Approaching detention from an interdisciplinary perspective, this new edited volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront it locally and globally. […]

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