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This book bringss together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention. Employing an intersectional lens and an impressive variety of case studies, it makes a compelling case to rethink what justice could mean for refugees, citizens, and everyone in between.
List of contents
Introduction - decarceral futures: bridging immigration and prison justice towards an abolitionist future 1. Mutual aid as abolitionist praxis 2. States and human immobilization: bridging the conceptual separation of slavery, immigration controls, and mass incarceration 3. Crisis, capital accumulation, and the 'Crimmigration' fix in the aftermath of the global slump 4. Held at the gates of Europe: barriers to abolishing immigration detention in Turkey 5. Substituting immigration detention centres with 'open prisons' in Indonesia: alternatives to detention as the continuum of unfreedom 6. ICE comes to Tennessee: violence work and abolition in the Appalachian South 7. Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada 8. Immigration status and policing in Canada: current problems, activist strategies and abolitionist visions 9. Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state
About the author
Sharry Aiken is Associate Professor at Queen's University's Faculty of Law and affiliated with the Queen's Cultural Studies Program. She is a past president of the Canadian Council for Refugees, Co-Editor of the
PKI Global Justice Journal, and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Refuge.
Stephanie J. Silverman is a researcher, consultant, educator, editor, and scholar. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford (2013) as a commonwealth scholar, served as the SSHRC Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights (2015-2016), on faculty at the University of Toronto for six years, and at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Summary
This book bringss together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention. Employing an intersectional lens and an impressive variety of case studies, it makes a compelling case to rethink what justice could mean for refugees, citizens, and everyone in between.
