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Whose feelings count? Performance politics, emotion and government immigration control
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Forkert, Kirsten , Jackson , Emma and Jones, Hannah (2016) Whose feelings count? Performance politics, emotion and government immigration control. In: Jupp, Eleanor and Pykett, Jessica and Smith, Fiona M., (eds.) Emotional States : sites and spaces of affective governance. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge , pp. 177-190. ISBN 9781472454058 (In Press)
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Abstract
In the summer of 2013, a van with the slogan reading ‘In the UK Illegally? Go home or face arrest’ was driven through six ethnically diverse London boroughs. The van was part of a pilot scheme, named ‘Operation Vaken’, carried out by the UK Home Office, the government department responsible for immigration. The stated aim of Operation Vaken was to encourage people whose immigration papers were not in order to come forward and take part in the government's long-standing 'voluntary returns' scheme; to 'go home' to the countries from which they had migrated, with the threat that if they did not they would be sought out, arrested and deported anyway. This accompanied targeted and high-profile immigration raids on public transport hubs and workplaces, which were publicised on the Home Office's Twitter account with pictures of people being arrested by immigration officers and pushed into the back of enforcement vans, with the hashtag #immigrationoffender. Later that summer, further posters were displayed inside immigration reporting centres in Glasgow and Hounslow, where asylum seekers were faced with images of aeroplanes with the slogan ‘This plane can take you home. We can book the tickets’.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emigration and immigration -- Barking (London, England) , Emigration and immigration -- Dagenham (London, England) , Emigration and immigration -- Ealing (London, England), Emigration and immigration -- Hounslow (London, England), Emigration and immigration -- Birmingham (England), Emigration and immigration -- Coventry (England) | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781472454058 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Emotional States : sites and spaces of affective governance | ||||||
| Editor: | Jupp, Eleanor and Pykett, Jessica and Smith, Fiona M. | ||||||
| Official Date: | 4 October 2016 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 250 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 177-190 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 October 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 May 2018 | ||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||
| Grant number: | ES/L008971/1 | ||||||
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