ABSTRACT
In the final chapter, I offer an analysis of dignity taking into account all three sites of investigation. Using the descriptions of dignity offered to me by women in the study, I attempt to define dignity as it was experienced by women who had spent time in immigration detention. Three prominent descriptions that were frequent throughout are discussed: Dignity as an action, dignity as a possession, and dignity as a state of being. I conclude this chapter, and the book, with the suggestion that the current system used by the UK government is dangerously unfit for purpose and damaging to many of those who are unfortunate enough to be ensnared within it. I discuss what we are to make of these institutions that appear to be so dehumanising to women. Finally, I ask if there are possible alternatives to the current practice of incarceration, and what can be done to alleviate the harms that are currently inflicted on women during the process of immigration enforcement in the UK.
