Nothing Personal?

<p>In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.<br/><br/></p> <ul> <li>Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects</li> <li>Challenges the consensus that border controls are necessary or desirable in contemporary society</li> <li>Demonstrates how immigration decision makers are immersed in a suffocating web of institutionalized processes that greatly hinder their objectivity and limit their access to alternative perspectives</li> <li>Theoretically informed throughout, drawing on the work of a range of social theorists, including Max Weber, Zygmunt Bauman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Simmel</li> </ul>