Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface - 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: L'Aquila [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
