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The Archipelago of Detention
No crime means no police. What makes the presence and control of the police tolerable for the population, if not fear of the criminal? This institution of the police, which is so recent and so oppressive, is only justified by Read More …
U.S. Border Wall and Detention Policy Listed as International Human Rights Concerns
Courtesy: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) Border Wall in Texas, United States Audio Video in original language Video in Spanish Video in English Photos Due process problems in the application of Read More …
Exposing the Business of Immigrant Detention – CCA
I recently discovered a Reuters report featuring CCA (Corrections Corp of America)–the biggest privatized immigrant detention facility in the United States–almost gloating about the fact that these coming elections won’t make a difference to their company since there will always Read More …
Welcome to America – Here We Make 'Criminals' Out of Jet-Skiers
This news story feeds perfectly into the socio-political construction of the migrant criminal / ‘inmate’ touched upon in the last blog post. It also shows the ludicrousness and tragicomic hilarity of our archipelagos of detention. Two jet skiers that had Read More …
Foucault on Geography and Population
“One might wonder, as a conceit or a hypothesis, whether geographical knowledge doesn’t carry within itself the circle of the frontier, whether this be a national, departmental or cantonal frontier; and hence, whether one shouldn’t add to the figures of Read More …