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

Beyond Walls and Borders is a resounding ‘must-read’ for any activist, scholar, or those straddling worlds between.

–Ulises Moreno-Tabarez “London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books“

Bringing together immigrant justice and antiprison organizing, this volume offers an unusual and enlightening mix of writing by scholars, activists, and artists. There is not a lot available on migrant detention, and from what this book tells us it is on the increase, with record numbers of people detained.

–Jennifer Hyndman “author of Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism“

Dares to undertake a task of political emergency that is here, now, and deeply historical . . . The thinkers in this collection catalyze a series of debates, conversations, and imaginative possibilities that stretch and vitally distend the existing horizons and languages of abolitionist, human/immigrant rights, prison reform, and U.S. border activisms. A mind-boggling array of critical positions, all informed by on-the-ground political work, is present in these pages. No one will walk away from this book unchanged.

–Dylan Rodríguez “author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime“

The diversity of voices and perspectives in one of the strengths of [Beyond Walls and Cages], taken collectively the reader is given a complex and multifaceted picture of imprisonment and detention. . . . [it is an] important contribution to the existing critical geographic scholarship on imprisonment and immigrant detention.

–Jill Williams “Antipode“

This is a radical book that strips away any pretense that prisons and policies designed to place as many people as possible in them can be humane. The writers herein issue a clear and thoughtful call to reconsider the entire concept of prisons that US society and its institutions have based their approach to dealing with the poor, non-white, and others with little power in their midst.

–Ron Jacobs “Counterpunch“

This is an unashamedly partisan book, which nails its colours firmly to the anti-prison and immigrant justice masts – and the success of the collection is all the greater for it. A timely, insightful and diverse collection, it spans an enormous range of issues and perspectives and offers a rich discussion of the connections between prisons, migration policing and detention, border fortification and militarisation.

–Dominique Moran “Society and Space“

JENNA M. LOYD is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 and Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States (coauthored with Alison Mountz).

ANDREW BURRIDGE is a research associate in the International Boundaries Research Unit of the Department of Geography at Durham University.