Introduction: Humanizing Migration Control and Detention
Introduction: Humanizing Migration Control and Detention
This introductory chapter discusses the three main themes that emerge from this volume: first, the various mechanisms for objectifying migrants and detainees that make the belligerent pursuit of narrow national interest more palatable; second, the brittle legal status afforded to detainees that allows their sense of worth to be undermined, particularly through criminalization alongside a lack of the protections that apply in criminal law; and, third, the importance of identifying the agency possessed by migrants and detainees, and resisting the temptation to see them as a homogenous block, rather than people with diverse characteristics, needs, and experiences.
Keywords: migrants, objectification, detainees, national interest, legal status, criminalization
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