Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. Book 14)

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. 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Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis 32 Policing Mobility: Maintaining Global Apartheid from South Africa to the United States 34 Understanding Conquest through a Border Lens: A Comparative Analysis of the Mexico-U.S. and Morocco-Spain Regions 42 Race, Capitalist Crisis, and Abolitionist Organizing: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, February 2010 57 Part II: Global Crisis, National Struggles: The Work of Policing the Nation around the World 70 The Texas-Mexico Border Wall and Ndé Memory: Confronting Genocide and State Criminality, beyond the Guise of “Impunity” 72 Prisoners of Passage: Immigration Detention in Canada 89 Mapping Remote Detention: Dis/location through Isolation 106 Migration Policy and the Criminalization of Protest 120 William Bratton in the Other L.A. 130 Part III: Poverty and Wars at Home: Finding Spaces for Refuge and Change 142 Building Prisons, Building Poverty: Prison Sitings, Dispossession, and Mass Incarceration 144 Business of Detention 158 Torn Apart: Struggling to Stay Together after Deportation 167 Creating Spaces for Change: An Interview with Amy Gottlieb, November 2009 178 Bajo la Misma Luna: (Under the Same Moon) 188 Part IV: Battleground Arizona: Local Crossroads, National Struggles 194 Policing Our Border, Policing Our Nation: An Examination of the Ideological Connections between Border Vigilantism and U.S. National Ideology 196 Resisting the Security-Industrial Complex: Operation Streamline and the Militarization of the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands 205 Detention and Access to Justice: A Florence Project Case Study 224 Community, Identity, and Political Struggle: Challenging Immigrant Prisons in Arizona 230 “Live, Love, and Work”: An Interview with Luis Fernandez, August 2010 243 Part V: Speaking Up! Standing Up!: Local Struggles against Walls and Cages 254 A Politics for Our Time? Organizing against Jails 256 “A Prison Is Not a Home”: Notes from the Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention 268 Fighting for the Vote: The Struggle against Felon and Immigrant Disenfranchisement 281 ¡La Policía, la Migra, la Misma Porquería!: Popular Resistance to State Violence 292 Part VI: Ending Border Wars: Building Abolitionist Futures 300 Mapping Black Bodies for Disease: Prisons, Migration, and the Politics of HIV/AIDS 302 The War on Drugs Is a War on Relationships: Crossing the Borders of Fear, Silence, and HIV Vulnerability in the Prison-Created Diaspora 316 Immigrant Justice from a Trans Perspective: An Interview with Gael Guevara, May 2009 329 Descado en Los Angeles: Cycles of Invisible Resistance 340 Winning the Fight of Our Lives 352 Contributors 362 Index 372 A 372 B 373 C 373 D 375 E 376 F 376 G 377 H 377 I 378 J 379 K 379 L 379 M 380 N 381 O 382 P 382 Q 383 R 383 S 384 T 385 U 386 V 386 W 387 X 387 Y 387 Z 387 Introduction. Borders, prisons, and abolitionist visions / Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, Andrew Burridge -- Policing mobility maintaining global apartheid from South Africa to the United States / Joseph Nevins -- Understanding conquest through a border lens a comparative analysis of the Mexico-U.S. and Morocco-Spain regions / Cynthia Bejarano, Maria Cristina Morales, Said Saddiki -- Race, capitalist crisis, and abolitionist organizing an interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, February 2010 / Jenna Loyd -- The Texas-Mexico border wall and Ndé memory confronting genocide and state criminality, beyond the guise of "impunity" / Margo Tamez -- Prisoners of passage immigration detention in Canada / Harsha Walia, Proma Tagore -- Mapping remote detention dislocation through isolation / Alison Mountz -- Migration policy and the criminalization of protest / Olga Aksyutina -- William Bratton in the other L.A. / Micol Seigel -- Building prisons, building poverty prison sitings, dispossession, and mass incarceration / Anne Bonds -- Business of detention / Renee Feltz, Stokely Baksh -- Torn apart struggling to stay together after deportation / Seth Freed Wessler, Julianne Hing -- Creating spaces for change an interview with Amy Gottlieb, November 2009 / Jenna Loyd -- Bajo la misma luna (under the same moon) / Elizabeth Vargas -- Policing our nation: an examination of the ideological connections between border vigilantism and U.S. national ideology / Jodie M. Lawston, Ruben R. Murillo -- Resisting the security-industrial complex operation streamline and the militarization of the Arizona-Mexico borderlands / Borderlands Autonomist Collective -- Detention and access to justice a Florence project case study / Christopher Stenken -- Community, identity, and political struggle challenging immigrant prisons in Arizona / Zoe Hammer -- "Live, love, and work" an interview with Luis Fernandez, August 2010 / Jenna Loyd -- A politics for our time? Organizing against jails / Joshua M. Price -- "A prison is not a home" notes from the campaign to end immigrant family detention / Bob Libal, Lauren Martin, Nicole Porter -- Fighting for the vote the struggle against felon and immigrant disenfranchisement / Monica W. Varsanyi -- ¡La policía, la migra, la misma porquería! Popular resistance to state violence / Mariana Viturro -- Mapping black bodies for disease prisons, migration, and the politics of HIV/AIDS / Rashad Shabazz -- The war on drugs is a war on relationships crossing the borders of fear, silence, and HIV vulnerability in the prison-created diaspora / Laura McTighe -- Immigrant justice from a trans perspective an interview with Gael Guevara, May 2009 / Jenna Loyd -- Descado en Los Angeles cycles of invisible resistance / Irina Contreras -- Winning the fight of our lives / Subhash Kateel.

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.

Edited By Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, Andrew Burridge. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.