New Historical Express

Category: X-rays

Biopolitics, Border control studies, Criminology, Immigration, Medical tests/examinations, X-rays

Age disputes and the non-medical use of x-rays in the UK border control system
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
Announcements, Archives, Biopolitics, Books, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government inquiries, Immigration, National Archives (UK), Profiling, Racial discrimination, Research, The Guardian, UK Labour Party, Virginity testing, Women’s history, X-rays

The ‘virginity testing’ controversy 35 years on
Announcements, Biopolitics, Border control studies, Britain-EEC/EU relations, British ‘race relations’, British History, Britishness, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Deleuze, Enoch Powell, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Journal announcements, Profiling, Tories, Virginity testing, X-rays

New journal article – ‘The Myth of Sovereignty: British Immigration Control in Policy and Practice in the Nineteen-Seventies’
academia, Announcements, Asylum, Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Criminology, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Government inquiries, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Journal announcements, Papers/Seminars, Profiling, Refugees, Tories, UK Labour Party, UKBA, X-rays

New journal article: Examining the body through technology
Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Contemporary history, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Immigration, Immigration Act 1971, Party manifestos, Thatcherism, Tories, UK Labour Party, UKBA, Virginity testing, X-rays

Labour’s 1983 manifesto and immigration
Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Immigration, The Guardian, UKBA, Virginity testing, X-rays

The UKBA and the ‘burden of proof’
Border control studies, British ‘race relations’, British History, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Commission for Racial Equality, Contemporary history, Government inquiries, Immigration, National Front, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Thatcherism, UK Labour Party, X-rays

Some thoughts on the idea of immigration ‘control’