Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration - Paperback
Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration - Paperback
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by Michelle Peterie (Editor)
Applying a gender and race lens to immigration detention, Immigration Detention and Social Harm argues that calls for detention reform must be replaced by bolder demands for detention abolition - positing that harm is so embedded in immigration detention systems that reform is no longer possible.
Author Biography
Dr Michelle Peterie is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Peterie's research investigates the impacts of social policies and practices on individual and collective wellbeing. Taking a person-centred approach - and in close collaboration with research participants and third-sector stakeholders - her work seeks to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, families and communities. Peterie is the author of Visiting Immigration Detention: Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons (2022), the co-author of Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand: More Harm than Good? (2022), and the co-editor of Emotions in Late Modernity (Routledge, 2019). She has been invited to give expert evidence to the Australian Senate, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Crown Solicitor, and her research has received national media attention.
