Race, gender and the body in British immigration control : subject to examination / Evan Smith and Marinella Marmo, Flinders University, Australia.
"Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control provides the most detailed account of the virginity testing controversy in the late 1970s, and demonstrates that this abusive practice, which was endured by South Asian women for more than a decade, was part of a wider culture of mistrea...
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1 Decolonisation and the Creation of the British Immigration Control System ; 2 The Border as a Filter: Maintaining the Divide in the Post-Imperial Era ; 3 Reorienting the South Asian Female Body: The Practice of Virginity Testing and the Treatment of Migrant Women ; 4 Deny, Normalise and Obfuscate: The Government Response to the Virginity Testing Practice and Other Physical Abuses ; 5 The Postcolonial World Stage: Immigration and Britain's International Reputation.
- 6 Discrimination by Other Means: Further Restrictions on Migrant Women and Children Under the Conservatives Conclusion ; Works Cited ; Index.