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This abusive practice must be seen in the context of the overall highly discriminatory treatment of migrant women coming from the Indian subcontinent evident from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. https://t.co/dSwVAvwsXh
Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Decolonisation and the Creation of the British Immigration Control System
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 The Border as a Filter: Maintaining the Divide in the Post-Imperial Era
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Reorienting the South Asian Female Body: The Practice of Virginity Testing and the Treatment of Migrant Women
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 Deny, Normalise and Obfuscate: The Government Response to the Virginity Testing Practice and Other Physical Abuses
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 The Postcolonial World Stage: Immigration and Britain’s International Reputation
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Discrimination by Other Means: Further Restrictions on Migrant Women and Children Under the Conservatives
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Conclusion
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Reorienting the South Asian Female Body: The Practice of Virginity Testing and the Treatment of Migrant Women