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Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control: Subject to Examination

By Evan Smith , Marinella Marmo (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-349-44771-8, 978-1-137-28044-2
DOI
10.1057/9781137280442
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1666738 bytes)
Series
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 196\205
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Gender Studies;Sociology of the Body;Ethnicity Stu

Description

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.

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