On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration
powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained …

A defining feature of immigration detention in the United Kingdom is its indeterminacy; that
is, there are no statutory constraints on the length of time an individual can be detained. As …

This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in
carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It …

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the
United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how …

The crimmigration literature has underlined the increasing merging of criminal law and
immigration law practices and procedures. Border criminology literature, in turn, has recently …

This article draws on ethnographic research that I conducted in five British immigration
removal centres from November 2009 to June 2011, and considers the challenges these …

This article proposes the term Departheid to capture the systemic oppression and spatial
management of illegalized migrants in Western liberal states. As a concept, Departheid aims …

In this article we examine whether the proposal to criminalize illegal stay in the Netherlands
was preceded by increased negative media attention for unauthorized immigrants. Using a …

In this article, I examine the changing nature of punishment under conditions of mass
mobility. Drawing on research conducted in immigration removal centres in the UK, I will …

Immigration detention is a central tenet of the British government's response to immigration
but remains under-theorised in academia. This article uses testimonies drawn from …