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* Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects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
* Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects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
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781444367065
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-6706-5
- Verlag: Wiley
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.02.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 422 g
- Seiten: 240
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 231 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt