This article provides a critical review of key theoretical positions relevant to border control and sets out an agenda for developing these ideas. In 2005 Mythen and Walklate published …
Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the" crimmigrant other" has …
Author Julia O'Connell Davidson is a leading scholar of modern slavery and is regularly approached by the media to comment on issues such as prostitution, trafficking, sex tourism …
Winner of the 2023 International Political Sociology Book Award The seamy underside of humanitarianism What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury …
Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens …
On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained …
In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria …
The legal control of marginal groups is a central topic in social scientific and legal scholarship. Examining the most influential research produced over the past two decades …
“Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering in Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier draw attention to this urgent concern and make a remarkable contribution to the …