1st Edition
A World Without Cages Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice
Introduction – decarceral futures: bridging immigration and prison justice towards an abolitionist future
Sharry Aiken and Stephanie J. Silverman
1. Mutual aid as abolitionist praxis
Simone Weil Davis and Rachel Fayter
2. States and human immobilization: bridging the conceptual separation of slavery, immigration controls, and mass incarceration
Nandita Sharma
3. Crisis, capital accumulation, and the ‘Crimmigration’ fix in the aftermath of the global slump
Jessica Evans
4. Held at the gates of Europe: barriers to abolishing immigration detention in Turkey
Esra S. Kaytaz
5. Substituting immigration detention centres with ‘open prisons’ in Indonesia: alternatives to detention as the continuum of unfreedom
Antje Missbach
6. ICE comes to Tennessee: violence work and abolition in the Appalachian South
Michelle Brown
7. Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada
Salina Abji and Lindsay Larios
8. Immigration status and policing in Canada: current problems, activist strategies and abolitionist visions
David Moffette
9. Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state
Nisha Nath
Biography
Sharry Aiken is Associate Professor at Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law and affiliated with the Queen's Cultural Studies Program. She is a past president of the Canadian Council for Refugees, Co-Editor of the PKI Global Justice Journal, and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Refuge.
Stephanie J. Silverman is a researcher, consultant, educator, editor, and scholar. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford (2013) as a commonwealth scholar, served as the SSHRC Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights (2015-2016), on faculty at the University of Toronto for six years, and at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
