In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of
exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and …

This paper calls for greater attention to air deportation, defined as the multiple ways in which
states utilize aviation systems for the purpose of expelling unwanted people under …

This paper introduces a materialist approach to Isin's concept of 'acts of citizenship'to call for
an attention to the lively and agential materials that mediate citizenship claims. It describes …

Michelle Peterie's revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration
detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia's onshore …

Each year the United States government detains and deports hundreds of thousands of
people who prior to their removal are held in confinement for an average of 55 days. The …

In the interdisciplinary scholarship regarding immigration detention, the social, political and
psychological costs of confinement are well documented. In recent years, however, scholars …

This article explores the mechanisms in which, through the US family detention asylum
process, neoliberal ideas of citizenship are reinforced and contested. Through ethnographic …

Transportation has been identified as one of the major barriers to successful reentry for
prisoners released to community in the United States. We foregrounded transportation and …

In family detention, religious practice does not stand alone as a faith free-zone, but rather
unfolds within what Néstor Rodríguez and Cristian Paredes call 'coercive bureaucracy'that …

This thesis explores the ways in which creativity can produce modes of resistance within the
UK asylum system. It argues for a rethinking of resistance across three dimensions: non …