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Beyond walls and cages : prisons, borders, and global crisis / edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge

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Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 372 pages).
Additional Creators
Loyd, Jenna M., 1973-, Mitchelson, Matt, 1978-, and Burridge, Andrew, 1981-
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English.
Contents
Introduction. Borders, prisons, and abolitionist visions / Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, Andrew Burridge -- Policing mobility maintaining global apartheid from South Africa to the United States / Joseph Nevins -- Understanding conquest through a border lens a comparative analysis of the Mexico-U.S. and Morocco-Spain regions / Cynthia Bejarano, Maria Cristina Morales, Said Saddiki -- Race, capitalist crisis, and abolitionist organizing an interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, February 2010 / Jenna Loyd -- The Texas-Mexico border wall and Ndé memory confronting genocide and state criminality, beyond the guise of "impunity" / Margo Tamez -- Prisoners of passage immigration detention in Canada / Harsha Walia, Proma Tagore -- Mapping remote detention dislocation through isolation / Alison Mountz -- Migration policy and the criminalization of protest / Olga Aksyutina -- William Bratton in the other L.A. / Micol Seigel -- Building prisons, building poverty prison sitings, dispossession, and mass incarceration / Anne Bonds -- Business of detention / Renee Feltz, Stokely Baksh -- Torn apart struggling to stay together after deportation / Seth Freed Wessler, Julianne Hing -- Creating spaces for change an interview with Amy Gottlieb, November 2009 / Jenna Loyd -- Bajo la misma luna (under the same moon) / Elizabeth Vargas -- Policing our nation: an examination of the ideological connections between border vigilantism and U.S. national ideology / Jodie M. Lawston, Ruben R. Murillo -- Resisting the security-industrial complex operation streamline and the militarization of the Arizona-Mexico borderlands / Borderlands Autonomist Collective -- Detention and access to justice a Florence project case study / Christopher Stenken -- Community, identity, and political struggle challenging immigrant prisons in Arizona / Zoe Hammer -- "Live, love, and work" an interview with Luis Fernandez, August 2010 / Jenna Loyd -- A politics for our time? Organizing against jails / Joshua M. Price -- "A prison is not a home" notes from the campaign to end immigrant family detention / Bob Libal, Lauren Martin, Nicole Porter -- Fighting for the vote the struggle against felon and immigrant disenfranchisement / Monica W. Varsanyi -- ¡La policía, la migra, la misma porquería! Popular resistance to state violence / Mariana Viturro -- Mapping black bodies for disease prisons, migration, and the politics of HIV/AIDS / Rashad Shabazz -- The war on drugs is a war on relationships crossing the borders of fear, silence, and HIV vulnerability in the prison-created diaspora / Laura McTighe -- Immigrant justice from a trans perspective an interview with Gael Guevara, May 2009 / Jenna Loyd -- Descado en Los Angeles cycles of invisible resistance / Irina Contreras -- Winning the fight of our lives / Subhash Kateel.
Summary
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people-more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future. Working at a range of geographic scales and locations, contributors examine concrete and ideological connections among prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification, and militarization. They challenge the idea that prisons and borders create safety, security, and order, showing that they can be forms of coercive mobility that separate loved ones, disempower communities, and increase shared harms of poverty. Walls and cages can also fortify wealth and power inequalities, racism, and gender and sexual oppression. As governments increasingly rely on criminalization and violent measures of exclusion and containment, strategies for achieving change are essential.
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ISBN
9780820344928 (electronic bk.)
0820344923 (electronic bk.)
9780820344119 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0820344117 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0820344125
9780820344126
9781283733335
1283733331
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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