Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview : free movement of persons and liberty of the person
  • The creation of immigration detention : from free movement to regulated borders in America and the United Kingdom
  • Modern immigration detention and the rise of the permanent bureaucratic enterprise
  • International law and immigration detention : between territorial sovereignty and emerging human rights norms
  • Negotiating detention within the European Union : redefining friends and enemies
  • Security and immigration detention : the problem of internment in peacetime
  • Global migration and the politics of immigration detention
  • Restoring the rule of law and influencing politics : placing boundaries around detention.