This powerful volume brings together scholars, activists, artists and experts-by-experience offering a radical critique of immigration detention and border carceral regimes more broadly, testifying to their inherent harms.
The contributors critically examine how COVID-19 intensified state control, abandonment, and marginalisation while highlighting inspiring acts of resistance and solidarity. Combining abolitionist and no-border perspectives alongside critical scholarly analysis, the book offers urgent insights into dismantling oppressive detention infrastructures and building caring communities.
Essential reading for academics, practitioners and activists committed to social justice, human rights and imagining abolitionist futures beyond borders and systems of incarceration.
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A crucial comparative analysis of how carceral states, across different political terrains, brutally exploited the linked refugee and COVID-19 crises. Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore, California Prison Moratorium Project
Spanning Europes carceral border regimes, interspliced with the poetic reflections of those who have felt the violence of their enforcement, this book offers insight into the possibilities that can emerge when public health matters more than punishment. As ever more crises hover on our horizons, this is a timely intervention for those interested in building a livable life for all, and for liberation and abolitionist futures. Mo Mansfield, Abolitionist Futures and INQUEST Strikingly timely and insightful, this book expertly illuminates todays rapidly evolving global migration and border crises with clarity and critical credibility. Moshood Olanrewaju, Society for Community Research and Action
This book offers a sophisticated analysis of the poetics and politics of detention and deportation. It opens up multiple avenues for critical inquiry and political imagination, providing insights that can reinvigorate transnational dialogues with engaged scholars and activists in Latin America. Eduardo Domenech, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina A vital critique of detention and deportation in Europe, revealing how the COVID-19 syndemic deepened border violence and abolitionist horizons. Natália Corazza Padovani, Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero Pagu/ UNICAMP
A courageous, timely, much-needed collective abolitionist project unmasking border violence through rigorous scholarship and the powerful voices of racialized persons and activists. Giulia Fabini, University of Bologna
Foreword - Shahram Khosravi
Introduction - Annika Lindberg, Francesca Esposito, and Teresa Degenhardt
Poem: Breaking News - Elahe Zivardar, aka Ellie Shakiba
1. Immigration Detention and Deportation in the UK During the Time of Covid-
Mary Bosworth
Poem: Did You Come Here by Boat? - Nandi Jola
2. Contours of Confinement: Evolving Dynamics of Immigration Detention and
Containment in Spain Since the Covid-19 Syndemic - Ana Ballesteros-Pena
Poem: I Am Different - David Moyo
3. Unhealthy Detention: Exploring the Role of Public Health Structures in
Sustaining the Greek Immigration Detention System - Andriani Fili
4. Medical Violence, Border Carcerality, and the Necropolitics of Uncare in
the Italian Detention System - Francesca Esposito, Emilio Caja, Nicola Cocco
Poem: Frozen - Fadwa Abdallah
5. Border Dams and Locks: The Game, the Syndemic, and Open-Air Flexible
Detention System in Serbia - Sanja Milivojevic
6. The Influence of the Covid-19 Syndemic and the Humanitarian Crisis at the
Polish-Belarusian Border on Courts Decisions to Impose Detention - Witold
Klaus
Poem: Water Runs Down My Eyes as I See No Light Ahead - Blandine Mokenge
Nakie
7. Structures of Uncare: From Detention to Organized Abandonment in the
Nordics - Annika Lindberg
8. From Isolation to Lockdown: Covid-19, Racialised Confinement, and
Counterinsurgency in the German Asylum System - Aino Korvensyrjä
Poem: The Eagle - Sunjay Gookooluk
9. The Impact of Covid-19 at the EU Periphery: The Short-Term Detention
Centre in Northern Ireland - Teresa Degenhardt
Poem: Landing - Viviana Fiorentino
Afterword - Deanna Dadusc, Papamadieye Dieye, Setareh Ghandehari, Gee
Manoharan, Cheikh Sene, Steve Naogu Stawnley
Francesca Esposito is Researcher in the Department of Psychology Renzo Canestrari at the University of Bologna, and Research Associate at the Centre for Social Justice Research at the University of Westminster and at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford.
Teresa Degenhardt is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Queens University Belfast and Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.
Annika Lindberg is Assistant Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bern.
