Visiting Immigration Detention: Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons

Front Cover -- Series -- Visiting Immigration Detentio: Care And Cruelty In Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: Studying Immigration Detention -- The Veil Of Secrecy -- Detention As Deterrence -- The Study -- Outline Of The Book -- 1 Immigration Detention In Australia -- Hannah's Story -- The Imperative To Act -- The Evolution Of Australia's Asylum Seeker Policies -- From White Australia To Multiculturalism -- The Introduction Of Indefinite Mandatory Detention Howard's Pacific Solution -- Labor's New Politics Of 'compassion' -- Operation Sovereign Borders -- The Anguish Offshore -- The Onshore System -- Medical Evacuations -- Support For People Seeking Asylum -- Conclusion -- 2 Theorizing Detention Centres As Prisons -- Elizabeth's Story -- Immigration Prisons -- The Pains Of Imprisonment -- Referred Pains -- Conclusion -- 3 Bureaucratic Violence -- Moina's Story -- The Totality Of The Institution -- Visitor Application Processes -- Visitor Entrance Procedures -- Approaching The Facilities -- Submitting To Security Screening -- The Admission Of Gifts The Admission Of Food -- Conclusion -- 4 Witnessing The Pains Of Imprisonment -- Kylie's Story -- Immigration Detention And Harm -- Inside The Visiting Room -- Everyday Visits -- Communal Celebrations -- Death By A Thousand Cuts -- Inadequate Recreation -- Reduced Agency -- Lack Of Certainty -- Harm And Hope(lessness) -- Detainee Pain -- Institutional Responses -- Conclusion -- 5 Care And Resistance -- Paul's Story -- Theorizing Resistance -- Disrupting Despair -- Recognizing Personhood -- Affirming Agency -- Agitating For Change -- Advocating For Detainees -- Bearing Witness -- Conclusion 6 Forced Relocations -- Carole's Story -- Carceral Mobility -- The Relocation Process -- 'disappearances' -- Being Transferred -- The Human Costs -- Disruption And Disorientation -- Isolation And Radiating Harms -- Conclusion -- 7 Reverberating Harms -- Robyn's Story -- The Benefits Of Volunteering -- The Collateral Impacts Of Immigration Detention -- The Sociology Of Trauma -- Perceived Powerlessness -- Everyday Disempowerment -- Moments Of Crisis -- Ontological Disruption -- Harmful Institutions -- Complacent Citizens -- Visitor Attrition -- Visitor Endurance -- Conclusion -- Conclusion Rebekah's Story -- The Human Costs Of Immigration Detention -- Plain And Tacit Intentionality -- References -- Index -- Back Cover Michelle Peterie. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.