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Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge
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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.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Part I Why Now?
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Policing Mobility
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Understanding Conquest through a Border Lens
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Race, Capitalist Crisis, and Abolitionist Organizing
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Part II Global Crisis, National Struggles
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The Texas-Mexico Border Wall and Ndé Memory
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Prisoners of Passage
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Mapping Remote Detention
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Migration Policy and the Criminalization of Protest
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William Bratton in the Other L.A.
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Part III Poverty and Wars at Home
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Building Prisons, Building Poverty
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Business of Detention
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Torn Apart
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Creating Spaces for Change
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Bajo la Misma Luna
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Part IV Battleground Arizona
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Policing Our Border, Policing Our Nation
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Resisting the Security-Industrial Complex
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Detention and Access to Justice
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Community, Identity, and Political Struggle
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“Live, Love, and Work”
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Part V Speaking Up! Standing Up!
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A Politics for Our Time?
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“A Prison Is Not a Home”
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Fighting for the Vote
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¡La Policía, la Migra, la Misma Porquería!
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Part VI Ending Border Wars
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Mapping Black Bodies for Disease
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The War on Drugs Is a War on Relationships
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Immigrant Justice from a Trans Perspective
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Descado en Los Angeles
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Winning the Fight of Our Lives
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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