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. "Beyond Walls and Cages" develops
abolitionist, no borders, and decolonial analyses and methods for
social change, showing how seemingly disconnected forms of state
violence are interconnected. Creating a more just and free
world--whether in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands, the Morocco-Spain
region, South Africa, Montana, or Philadelphia--requires that
people who are most affected become central to building
alternatives to global crosscurrents of criminalization and
militarization.
Contributors: Olga Aksyutina, Stokely Baksh, Cynthia Bejarano, Anne
Bonds, Borderlands Autonomist, Collective, Andrew Burridge, Irina
Contreras, Renee Feltz, Luis A. Fernandez, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Amy
Gottlieb, Gael Guevara, Zoe Hammer, Julianne Hing, Subhash Kateel,
Jodie M. Lawston, Bob Libal, Jenna M. Loyd, Lauren Martin, Laura
McTighe, Matt Mitchelson, Maria Cristina Morales, Alison Mountz,
Ruben R. Murillo, Joseph Nevins, Nicole Porter, Joshua M. Price,
Said Saddiki, Micol Seigel, Rashad Shabazz, Christopher Stenken,
Proma Tagore, Margo Tamez, Elizabeth Vargas, Monica W. Varsanyi,
Mariana Viturro, Harsha Walia, Seth Freed Wessler.
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