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Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and personal experience as an NGO practitioner, this book offers an exploration of Greece's immigration detention system, exposing how detention has been used as a tool for border control, racial exclusion, and social punishment.
List of contents
Introduction: Buried Seeds: Immigration Detention, Resistance, and Survival in Greece, 1. Ethnographic Returns: Witnessing, Reflexivity, and the Detention Complex, 2. Concealment and Confinement: The Hidden Foundations of Greek Immigration Control, 3. Making Lives Unlivable: The Construction of Greece's Detention Regime, 4. The Watchers and the Gatekeepers: How Greek Detention Escapes Scrutiny, 5. Saving What We Can: Humanitarianism and Complicity in Greek Detention, 6. Azadi Behind Bars: Resistance and Repression in Greek Detention Centers, Epilogue: The Cage-Free Horizon: Abolition, Imagination, and the Fight for Justice
About the author
Andriani Fili is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Her research explores immigration detention, state violence, and human rights, with a focus on Greece. Her current project examines the intersections of public health and immigration systems through archival research and fieldwork. She contributes to border criminology, sociology, and anthropological scholarship and collaborates with local civil society on countermapping detention spaces in Greece.
