Beyond walls and cages : prisons, borders, and global crisis

389 Pages·2012·3.404 MB·English

by  Loyd, Jenna M., Mitchelson, Matt, Burridge, Andrew

Beyond Walls and Cages
geographies of justice and social transformation
series editors
Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
Melissa W. Wright, Pennsylvania State University
advisory board
Sharad Chari, London School of Economics
Bradon Ellem, University of Sydney
Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Herod, University of Georgia
Jennifer Hyndman, York University
Larry Knopp, University of Washington, Tacoma
Heidi Nast, DePaul University
Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia
Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
Paul Routledge, University of Glasgow
Neil Smith, City University of New York
Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and GloBal Crisis
edited By
jenna m. loyd
matt mitchelson
andrew Burridge
the university of georgia press
Athens & London
© 2012 by the University of Georgia Press
Athens, Georgia 30602
www.ugapress.org
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Beyond walls and cages : prisons, borders, and global crisis /
edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge.
p. cm. — (Geographies of justice and social
transformation ; 14)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8203-4411-9 (hbk. : alk. paper) —
ISBN 0-8203-4411-7 (hbk. : alk. paper) —
ISBN 978-0-8203-4412-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) —
ISBN 0-8203-4412-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Illegal aliens. 2. Detention of persons. 3. Imprisonment.
4. Border security — Government policy. 5. Emigration and
immigration — Government policy. I. Loyd, Jenna M., 1973–
II. Mitchelson, Matt, 1978– III. Burridge, Andrew, 1981–
JV6038.B49 2012
365 — dc23 2012016864

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4492-8
For all the people who have been taking down
the walls occupying our freedom dreams,
past and present and tomorrow
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contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Borders, Prisons, and Abolitionist Visions
jenna m. loyd, matt mitchelson, and andrew burridge
part i why now?
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Policing Mobility 19
Maintaining Global Apartheid from South Africa
to the United States
joseph nevins
Understanding Conquest through a Border Lens 27
A Comparative Analysis of the Mexico-U.S.
and Morocco-Spain Regions
cynthia bejarano, maria cristina morales, and said saddiki
Race, Capitalist Crisis, and Abolitionist Organizing 42
An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, February 2010
jenna loyd
part ii global crisis, national struggles
The Work of Policing the Nation around the World
The Texas-Mexico Border Wall and Ndé Memory 57
Confronting Genocide and State Criminality,
beyond the Guise of “Impunity”
margo tamez
viii • contents
Prisoners of Passage 74
Immigration Detention in Canada
harsha walia and proma tagore
Mapping Remote Detention 91
Dis/location through Isolation
alison mountz
Migration Policy and the Criminalization of Protest 105
olga aksyutina
William Bratton in the Other L.A. 115
micol seigel
part iii poverty and wars at home
Finding Spaces for Refuge and Change
Building Prisons, Building Poverty 129
Prison Sitings, Dispossession, and Mass Incarceration
anne bonds
Business of Detention 143
renee feltz and stokely baksh
Torn Apart 152
Struggling to Stay Together after Deportation
seth freed wessler and julianne hing
Creating Spaces for Change 163
An Interview with Amy Gottlieb, November 2009
jenna loyd
Bajo la Misma Luna 173
(Under the Same Moon)
elizabeth vargas
contents • ix
part iV Battleground arizona
Local Crossroads, National Struggles
Policing Our Border, Policing Our Nation 181
An Examination of the Ideological Connections between
Border Vigilantism and U.S. National Ideology
jodie m. lawston and ruben r. murillo
Resisting the Security-Industrial Complex 190
Operation Streamline and the Militarization
of the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands
borderlands autonomist collective
Detention and Access to Justice 209
A Florence Project Case Study
christopher stenken
Community, Identity, and Political Struggle 215
Challenging Immigrant Prisons in Arizona
zoe hammer
“Live, Love, and Work” 228
An Interview with Luis Fernandez, August 2010
jenna loyd
part V speaking up! standing up!
Local Struggles against Walls and Cages
A Politics for Our Time? 241
Organizing against Jails
joshua m. price
“A Prison Is Not a Home” 253
Notes from the Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention
bob libal, lauren martin, and nicole porter