Video Abstract for ''Immigration Detention and Social Harm'' - Dr Michelle Peterie
This interdisciplinary edited collection is the first internationally to comprehensively explore the harms immigration detention imposes beyond the -detainee-. Bringing together research from North America, the UK, Europe and Australia, it shows how the harms immigration detention imposes ramify beyond singular bodies, moments and locations - reverberating through families and communities and echoing across time.
The book is structured in three parts. Part One: Human Costs examines the harms immigration detention imposes on people who are not personally incarcerated, but whose lives are nonetheless entangled with detention regimes. Part Two: Societal Consequences highlights the corrosive impacts of immigration detention at the societal level, including the role migrant incarceration plays in natural
