Becoming an Immigrant? Border Harms and “British” Men with Previous Convictions in British Immigration Removal Centers

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ID6051659
AutoresDan Godshaw (0000-0001-9060-5510, University of Bristol, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas225-241
Data de publicação2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10612-020-09524-2
OpenAlexW3047694951
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas29

In the context of heightened debate around increasingly hostile immigration policies, the detention and deportation of people with long-standing connections to the United Kingdom (UK) have, within the last few years, received public attention. Such individuals—people who were born in or came to the UK as children—make up a significant proportion of the “foreign criminal” population in detention. This article examines how those individuals with long-standing links, who also have criminal convictions, are often “erased” by the British state. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork with men currently and formerly held in immigration removal centers, I argue that institutional failings in immigration and local authority care “guide” some who grow up in the UK toward (and into) the criminal justice system. Shunning responsibility for these failings, the British state enacts a further punishment through immigration detention and attempted deportation. Despite acts that resist and problematize foreignness, detained “Brits” experience specific harms that change the way they feel about identity and belonging in Britain. These processes highlight the ways that national identity and immigration status intersect with class, gender and race to produce traumatic experiences of cultural denationalization

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