Becoming an Immigrant? Border Harms and “British” Men with Previous Convictions in British Immigration Removal Centers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6051659 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Godshaw (0000-0001-9060-5510, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-241 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10612-020-09524-2 |
| OpenAlex | W3047694951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
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
Criminal justice · Criminology · Deportation · Immigration · Immigration and crime · Immigration detention · Immigration law · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Sex work and related issues
Border Watch
Inside Immigration Detention
Acts of Citizenship
Us and Them
The place of ‘race’ in understanding immigration control and the detention of foreign nationals
From banlieue youth to undocumented migrant
Affect and authority in immigration detention
From prison to detention
In search of recognition
A really hostile environment’
Offending behaviour in care
Fear, black people and mental illness
Immigration Detention, Punishment and the Transformation of Justice
When 'Do No Harm' Is Not Enough
Naked protest
Imagined communities
Living with Uncertainty
Foreign, criminal
Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens
Out of Time
Denationalisation and discrimination
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
I don't have a life to live
Unfree labour in immigration detention
Deportation, racism and multi-status Britain
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |