Governmental mobility: The power effects of the movement of detained asylum seekers around Britain's detention estate

Gill, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.05.003

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“…They have organised hunger strikes and protests in U.K. detention centres like Yarl's Wood and Campsfield. The Home Office in response has deliberately moved 'trouble makers' from centre to centre to break up organisation (Gill, 2009).…”

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Migration and adult education: social movement learning and resistance in the UK

Grayson

2014

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Migration and adult education: social movement learning and resistance in the UK

Grayson

2014

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“…The association of detention with prisons with criminality creates a powerful series of "collateral effects" (Moran 2013b) on family members in the US and abroad and on government agents and nongovernmental service organizations (Gill 2009), as described above. and Operation Streamline work to illegalize noncitizens, to channel them into a system that will ban them from authorized presence for a decade.…”

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Noncitizen Detention: Spatial Strategies of Migrant Precarity in US Immigration and Border Control

Martin¹

2015

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(2015) 'Noncitizen detention : spatial strategies of migrant precarity in US immigration and border control.', Annales de geographie., 702-703 (2/3). pp. 231-247. Further information on publisher's website:http://www.revues.armand-colin.com/geographie-economie/annales-geographie/annales-geographie-ndeg-702-703-2-32015-geographie-lenfermement/retention-non-citoyens-strategies-spatiales Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract:The United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)operates the largest confinement system in the country, no small accomplishment in the world's largest prison system. This article analyzes the US immigration detention system as a series of spatial strategies through which state officials seek to manage and redirect transboundary migration. I argue that while detention works to confine, segregate, and categorize migrant bodies, detention is also a performance of state power. As such, it produces effects beyond deportation. The article will first outline how immigration detention both relies upon and extends the US criminal justice system to open up spaces of arbitrary administrative discretion. I then draw on my research on noncitizen detention and visitation programs to demonstrate how detention is more than a fixing of bodies in space; it is a process of isolation, criminalization, and marginalization. I argue that detention cannot be subsumed under or explained 2 by deportation, and that it plays a key role in the production of migrant precarity in current US immigration and border control.

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“…Visually containing actual noncitizen bodies and the symbolic problem of 'illegal immigration', detention broadcasts state power in action, particularly important for legitimating the newly-formed Department of Homeland Security's legitimation and the federal government's ability to secure US borders after the attacks of 11 September 2001 (Mountz 2004;Gill 2009; see also Andreas 2000). Thus, the spatial practices of enforcement are critically linked to broader narratives of in/security (Coleman 2009).…”

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The geopolitics of vulnerability: children's legal subjectivity, immigrant family detention and US immigration law and enforcement policy

Martin

2011

Gender, Place & Culture

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Governmental mobility: The power effects of the movement of detained asylum seekers around Britain's detention estate

Abstract: This paper explores the ways in which mobility

Cited by 151 publications

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Migration and adult education: social movement learning and resistance in the UK

Migration and adult education: social movement learning and resistance in the UK

Noncitizen Detention: Spatial Strategies of Migrant Precarity in US Immigration and Border Control

The geopolitics of vulnerability: children's legal subjectivity, immigrant family detention and US immigration law and enforcement policy

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