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Category: Virginity testing

Commission for Racial Equality, Government inquiries, Home Office, Immigration, immigration controls, Virginity testing

When the UK government tried to thwart an investigation of racism in the border control system
Announcements, Books, Border control studies, Immigration, Public service announcements, Uncategorized, Virginity testing, Women’s history

Buy ‘Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control’ from Palgrave and save £30
Archives, Biopolitics, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Contemporary history, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Immigration, National Archives (UK), Profiling, Research, State crime, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history

Determining the number of ‘virginity testing’ cases within the UK immigration control system
Biopolitics, Blood tests, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, HIV, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Medical tests/examinations, Profiling, Racial discrimination, UKBA, UKIP, Virginity testing

UK border control has long history of screening for ‘unhealthy’ migrants
Announcements, bloggy stuff, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Immigration, Virginity testing, Women’s history

CIGH’s Imperial & Global Forum blog on colonial origins of ‘virginity testing’ practice
Announcements, bloggy stuff, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Government inquiries, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Intersectionality, National Archives (UK), Profiling, Racial discrimination, Research, The Guardian, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history

Guest post at Border Criminologies
Announcements, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Deleuze, Feminism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government inquiries, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Intersectionality, Melanie Phillips, Modern European History, National Archives (UK), Racial discrimination, The Guardian, Tories, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history, X-rays

Out Now! Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control has been published
academia, Archives, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Empire, Hillsborough, Historical methods, Historiography, Immigration, National Archives (UK), Policing history, Popular memory, Racial discrimination, Research, Research suggestions, Security services (UK), Tories, UKBA, Virginity testing, Women’s history, Women’s liberation

Deny, normalise and obfuscate: The Home Office in the 1980s and the abuse of South Asian women