Punish and Expel

Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of the Prison

Bibliographic Data

ID19974079
AuthorsEmma Kaufman (0000-0002-7236-284X, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages320
Publication date2015-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePunish and Expel (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198712602.001.0001
OpenAlexW4230091255
Open LibraryOL28557407M
ISBN9780198712602
LanguageEN
Citations received41

In 2006, the British government began to transform its prison system. Under pressure to find and deport 'foreigners,' the Prison Service started to isolate non-citizens in special prisons, and to detain people well beyond their criminal sentences. These developments reflect a broader trend in punishment. In an era of mass mobility, prisons produce and police the edges of the nation. This book offers an empirical account of the prison's purpose. Drawing on a year of fieldwork, this book argues that the British government uses penal institutions to craft a particular, and increasingly exclusionary, notion of political membership. The book takes readers inside citizenship classes and 'all foreign' facilities, linking contemporary prisons to the history of British colonialism and the politics of race. In seven vivid chapters, this book challenges readers to rethink their approach to prisons, and to the people held inside them

Citizenship · Colonialism · Craft · Criminology · Deportation · Foreign national · Government (linguistics) · Immigration · Immigration detention · Imprisonment · Mass incarceration · Penology · Political science · Politics · Prison · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Alien criminals · emigration and immigration · Foreign Prisoners · Great britain

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