I've started this blog to document a road trip that I'll be taking through the South and Southwest US to explore how policies of immigrant detention and deportation are building on mass incarceration. This project builds on political work and writing on the subject I've been doing since 2006. Most recently this has taken the form of an edited book, Beyond Walls and Cages, I've been working on with fellow activist-geographers Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge. That project has a blog, which mostly tracks press coverage.
I have a few pointed questions for this road trip:
1) How do mass incarceration and immigrant detention and deportation affect livelihoods and community well-being? What alternatives are people proposing to prisons as economic development projects and to the economic dislocations of highly policed communities?
2) How are people organizing to oppose both of these systems? What kinds of coalitions are being forged and around what issues [jail expansion, racial profiling, education, budget crises, right to the city, etc.]?
We're also living through a huge economic crisis, which is part of what propels me into motion. So how are folks coping and trying to create creative, collective, sustainable, happy livelihoods?
Stay tuned for itinerary and posts.
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