These People Could Be Anyone
Fear, Contempt (and Empathy) in a British Immigration Removal Centre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3624969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Hall (0000-0002-1946-0715) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 881-898 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691831003643330 |
| OpenAlex | W2004857624 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 44 |
Detention is proliferating as a governmental response to human mobility in the 'war on terror'. Theoretical engagements with spaces of detention and enclosure have been influenced by Agamben's work on the camp and the sovereign exception. Such a view focuses on the abject 'bare life' that is produced by the sovereign decision. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among staff at a UK immigration removal centre, the paper makes the case for 'going inside' the detention centre. It examines the everyday life of detention through the lens of emotion, with a focus on fear and contempt. Exploring these emotions as forms of judgement or construal can unravel staff dispositions towards the detainees, and can demonstrate the ways in which emotion shapes the treatment the detainees receive. The paper argues for emotion as an analytical tool; in the case of detention, it can supplement abstract accounts of 'the camp
Contempt · Disgust · Immigration detention · Judgement · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Theology and Sovereignty
Encounters of Despair
The geographical scales of fear
Geographies of state violence
Reactive limits to diaspora enfranchisement policies
Policing the Borders Within
Inside Asylum Bureaucracy
Quality of life among immigrants in Swedish immigration detention centres
Detainees, staff, and health care services in immigration detention centres
Migration-related detention centers
Bordering encounters, sociality and distribution of the ability to live a ‘normal life’
Tracing the circulation of emotions in Swiss migration enforcement
Sensuous Ethnography
Blood, sweat and tears
Ambiguous goals, uneven implementation – how immigration offices shape internal immigration control in Germany
Paradoxical infrastructures of asylum
Countering isolation with the use of technology
Doing research in immigration removal centres
Techniques of legitimation
Law and Refugee Crises
Coerced to Leave
Female Asylum Seekers
The politics of fear and empathy
Affect and authority in immigration detention
Punishment on arrival
In search of recognition
Intercultural empathy among Norwegian students
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy
Conceptualizing detention
Yes, But Somebody Has to Help Them, Somehow
Shaping Borders
Border Control and the Degradation of Labour
Power and Purpose in an Immigration Removal Centre
Abnormal bordering
Empathy, morality, and criminality
Detention and its discontents
They Will Destroy Themselves Wanting Purely American
Subjectivity and identity in detention
Deportation limbo
Performing Homeland Security within the US Immigrant Detention System
Hunger strikes, detainee protest, and the relationality of political subjectivization
On Detention and Skill
Building and blurring the intimate boundaries of nation, race and geopolitics in a suburb neighbouring a UK immigration removal centre
Stuck in the middle
The trauma of exploitation
Examining the 'National Risk Assessment for Detention' process
Visa Officers as Gatekeepers of a State's Borders
All quiet on the 'Eastern front'? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania
How cities shape refugee centres
Under pressure
The affective economy of removal
Desiring 'foreign talent
"On board the quarantine-ship as "floating hotspot
Judgement and Ambivalence in Migration Work
With a Heavy Heart
Repressive Compassion
Securing Borders
Refugees and Exile
Loving Nature
Hiding from Humanity
Emotions
Abject Spaces
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish
Geographies of Exclusion
Asylum–Seekers and National Histories of Detention
Meanings, Feelings and Human Ecology
Isolation and exclusion in the modern world
Passions and Powers
Homo Sacer
Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption
The detention of asylum seekers in the UK
Vigilant Visualities
The return of the Camp
Epilogue The Scandal of the Refugee
A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
Shattering Silence
After or beyond feeling? A consideration of affect and emotion in geography
Questioning affect and emotion
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Upheavals of Thought
Biometric borders
The neurotic citizen
From refugee camps to gated communities
Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens
Becoming and Being Hopeful
Affective Economies
Formations of Violence
Unnatural Emotions
Meaning and Feeling in the Anthropology of Emotions
Pera Peras Poros
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Respect for outsiders? respect for the law? the moral evaluation of high scale issues by US immigration officers
At the extremes of exclusion
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,93 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |