Activism and the Detention of Migrants: The Law and Politics of Immigration Detention

by Tom Kemp

This book is an empirically grounded, critical engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation.

Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politics centres on representing the interests of disenfranchised people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032029277
• ISBN13: 9781032029276
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"