Deirdre Conlon - Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical perspectives (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

International migration has been described as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. While a lot is known about the complex nature of migratory flows, surprisingly little attention has been given to one of the most prominent responses by governments to human mobility: the practice of immigration detention.

Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention provides a timely intervention, offering much needed scrutiny of the ideologies, policies and practices that enable the troubling, unparalleled and seemingly unbridled growth of immigration detention around the world. An international collection of scholars provide crucial new insights into immigration detention, recounting at close range how detentions effects ricochet from personal and everyday experiences to broader political-economic, social and cultural spheres. Contributors draw on original research in the US, Australia, Europe and beyond to scrutinise the increasingly tangled relations associated with detention operation and migration management. With new theoretical and empirical perspectives on detention, the chapters collectively present a toolbox for better understanding the forces behind and broader implications of the seemingly uncontested rise of immigration detention.

This book should be of great interest to those who study political economy, economic geography and human mobility across borders, as well as policy makers interested in immigration.

Deirdre Conlon is a Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research examines immigration enforcement and detention in policy and practice, their effects on migrant (in)security, citizenship and everyday life, as well as the wider reverberations of immigration control.

Nancy Hiemstra is Assistant Professor of Migration Studies at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. Her research analyses the geopolitical and socio-cultural reverberations of restrictive immigration policies and practices in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on US detention and deportation.

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Critical perspectives

Edited by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra

Critical perspectives

Edited by Deirdre Conlon and
Nancy Hiemstra

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Names: Conlon, Deirdre. | Hiemstra, Nancy.
Title: Intimate economies of immigration detention : critical perspectives / edited by Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra.
Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016010438| ISBN 9781138900660 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315707112 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigrationGovernment policy. |
Emigration and immigrationEconomic aspects. | ImmigrantsGovernment policy. | Detention of persons.
Classification: LCC JV6038 .I66 2017 | DDC 365/.45dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016010438

ISBN: 978-1-138-90066-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-70711-2 (ebk)

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DEIRDRE CONLON AND NANCY HIEMSTRA

PART I
ENGAGING THE INTIMATE

MICHAEL FLYNN

LAUREN MARTIN

JULIA MORRIS

CAROLINE FLEAY

JILL M. WILLIAMS AND VANESSA A. MASSARO

MARIO BRUZZONE

PART II
EXPOSING INTIMATE ECONOMIES

NANCY HIEMSTRA AND DEIRDRE CONLON

KATE CODDINGTON

MALENE H. JACOBSEN

NICK GILL

MATTHEW LOWEN

ANITTA KYNSILEHTO AND EEVA PUUMALA

ALEXANDRA HALL

DORA SCHRIRO

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Mario Bruzzone is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of WisconsinMadison, USA. His dissertation concerns the localised economic and political processes of transit migration through Mexico. In addition to chapters in several books, his work has been published or is forthcoming in Antipode and Cultural Geographies.

Dr. Kate Coddington is a Lecturer in the Geography Department at Durham University, UK. Her work focuses on borders, migration, and postcolonial governance structures in the Asia-Pacific region. She has published related work in Progress in Human Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Geography Compass, Tourism Geographies, Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, and SHIMA: The International Journal of Research into Island Culture.

Deirdre Conlon is a Lecturer in Critical Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research examines immigration enforcement and detention in policy and practice, their effects on migrant (in)security, citizenship, and everyday life, as well as the wider reverberations of immigration control. Her current work, with Nancy Hiemstra, examines internal (micro)economies in the US detention system. She is co-editor of Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention