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This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
Beyond Walls And Cages By Jenna Loyd, Matt Mitchelson And Andrew Burridge (Eds)
This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
Beyond Walls And Cages By Jenna Loyd, Matt Mitchelson And Andrew Burridge (Eds)
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This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
Beyond Walls And Cages By Jenna Loyd, Matt Mitchelson And Andrew Burridge (Eds)
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This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
Beyond Walls And Cages By Jenna Loyd, Matt Mitchelson And Andrew Burridge (Eds)
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This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge, editors, Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2012, 168 pages, $24.95 paper, ISBN 9780820344126.
This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
The book situates itself at the intersection of a number of key debates, over mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex, immigration detention and deportation, the criminalization of migration, and the subjecting of ‘criminals’ and ‘foreigners’ to ‘civil death’ through exclusion from the social, economic and political spheres of citizenship. Whilst recognising that these phenomena are not limited to the United States, the book draws for its representative material on this context and example, approaching these debates through a structure which takes the reader through a series of six mini-collections; focusing first at the global scale, addressing the question of how the current situation has been reached; and then at the national, state and local scales, homing in on the United States, and exploring the local and the personal in intersectional analysis. The final two sections of the book look ahead, offering a response to the preceding sections and outlining strategies for change, based on abolitionist principles.
The collection provides a space in which a range of authorial voices can be heard – however it avoids the temptation to label or to categorise these voices, stressing instead the multiple identities which often characterise scholars and activists in this field. In so doing, the book emphasises the commonalities of approach and perspective; the shared understandings with which the various contributors approached their work. The result is a diverse and fascinating collection that works well both as a coherent whole and as a collection of individual pieces to be dipped into. Read as a whole, the transcribed interviews with both key thinkers and activists in this field (e.g., Amy Gottlieb, Luis Fernandez, Gael Guevara) which are distributed through the book, act as punctuation points, with the themes and threads emerging from individual chapters discussed and debated, and additional perspectives explored.
Particular highlights include Alison Mountz’s piece on detention on islands, which shines a light on the work of activists seeking to map detainee locations and provide data on the numbers of the detained; and Anne Bonds’ chapter on prison location, which also draws attention to the confinement of individuals far from home and family, although as a function of mass incarceration rather than migrant detention. Zoe Hammer’s work pulls these issues closer together still, focusing on the construction of migrant prisons in Arizona, and in the final two sections of the book, a number of compelling pieces, including those by Monica Varsanyi on the civil death of disenfranchised felons, and Rashad Shabazz on de-incarceration as a means to sever black communities from the social forces which facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS, draw out in very different ways the personal and community effects of detention and incarceration.
The editors of this collection set themselves a challenge – to reflect in an edited volume something of the diversity of perspective on the global crises they recognised in detention and incarceration. They have managed the diversity confidently, perhaps because of their own multiple identities as scholar-activists, and they produced a book that is well grounded, highly readable, and extremely effective.
A comparative ethnography of Melilla and the Canary Islands reveals that de facto borders created through excision are vulnerable to legal activism. The strategic use of the law can set back the expansion of the border project, tenuously restoring some rights for asylum-seeking and undocumented foreigners.
In response to the difficulties refugees face in finding housing, Berlin’s government has developed new housing-like shelters that offer longer-term accommodation. Drawing on literature concerning racial capitalism and urban migration governance, I explain how these shelters represent a multilayered business opportunity for revenue extraction, resulting in the ongoing displacement, spatial fixing, and continued racialization of refugees.
Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia’s colonial policy of ‘offshoring’ immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both ‘on’ and ‘offshore’. In this article, we draw upon concepts of racial surveillance capitalism and data justice to analyse a work by the Manus Recording Project Collective, titled where are you today, that sought to expose and counter the colonial border’s disappearing effects.
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cholars and practitioners of urban planning need to rethink the field’s futures at this important historical juncture: some might call it a moment of truth when there is little left to hide. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, contradictions, and inequalities that have always existed but are now more visible. This also includes the global vaccine apartheid that is ongoing as I write these words. Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining.
I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge, editors, Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crisis, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2012, 168 pages, $24.95 paper, ISBN 9780820344126.
This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.
The book situates itself at the intersection of a number of key debates, over mass incarceration, the prison industrial complex, immigration detention and deportation, the criminalization of migration, and the subjecting of ‘criminals’ and ‘foreigners’ to ‘civil death’ through exclusion from the social, economic and political spheres of citizenship. Whilst recognising that these phenomena are not limited to the United States, the book draws for its representative material on this context and example, approaching these debates through a structure which takes the reader through a series of six mini-collections; focusing first at the global scale, addressing the question of how the current situation has been reached; and then at the national, state and local scales, homing in on the United States, and exploring the local and the personal in intersectional analysis. The final two sections of the book look ahead, offering a response to the preceding sections and outlining strategies for change, based on abolitionist principles.
The collection provides a space in which a range of authorial voices can be heard – however it avoids the temptation to label or to categorise these voices, stressing instead the multiple identities which often characterise scholars and activists in this field. In so doing, the book emphasises the commonalities of approach and perspective; the shared understandings with which the various contributors approached their work. The result is a diverse and fascinating collection that works well both as a coherent whole and as a collection of individual pieces to be dipped into. Read as a whole, the transcribed interviews with both key thinkers and activists in this field (e.g., Amy Gottlieb, Luis Fernandez, Gael Guevara) which are distributed through the book, act as punctuation points, with the themes and threads emerging from individual chapters discussed and debated, and additional perspectives explored.
Particular highlights include Alison Mountz’s piece on detention on islands, which shines a light on the work of activists seeking to map detainee locations and provide data on the numbers of the detained; and Anne Bonds’ chapter on prison location, which also draws attention to the confinement of individuals far from home and family, although as a function of mass incarceration rather than migrant detention. Zoe Hammer’s work pulls these issues closer together still, focusing on the construction of migrant prisons in Arizona, and in the final two sections of the book, a number of compelling pieces, including those by Monica Varsanyi on the civil death of disenfranchised felons, and Rashad Shabazz on de-incarceration as a means to sever black communities from the social forces which facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS, draw out in very different ways the personal and community effects of detention and incarceration.
The editors of this collection set themselves a challenge – to reflect in an edited volume something of the diversity of perspective on the global crises they recognised in detention and incarceration. They have managed the diversity confidently, perhaps because of their own multiple identities as scholar-activists, and they produced a book that is well grounded, highly readable, and extremely effective.
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