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Nothing Personal?: Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
Contributor(s): Gill, Nick (Author)
ISBN: 1444367064     ISBN-13: 9781444367065
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $93.81  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
Dewey: 362.875
LCCN: 2015036895
Series: Rgs-Ibg Book
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.93 lbs) 240 pages
 
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In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.

  • Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects
  • Challenges the consensus that border controls are necessary or desirable in contemporary society
  • Demonstrates how immigration decision makers are immersed in a suffocating web of institutionalized processes that greatly hinder their objectivity and limit their access to alternative perspectives
  • Theoretically informed throughout, drawing on the work of a range of social theorists, including Max Weber, Zygmunt Bauman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Simmel