Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control [electronic resource] : Subject to Examination /
Smith, E.author.
Marmo, M.author.
This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at the border is uncovered.
Description based upon print version of record.
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 ConservativesConclusion; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at the border is uncovered.
Sociology.
Human body-Social aspects.
Ethnicity.
Political science.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of the Body.
Ethnicity Studies.
Political Science.
Crime and Society.
Migration.