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Bordered Lives

Immigration Detention Archive

by Mary Bosworth, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Christoph Balzar

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144 pp., 8 x 12 in, 47 color illus., 13 b&w illus.

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9783956793714
Published: February 2, 2021
Publisher: Sternberg Press
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The experience of detention from the perspective of the immigrant, drawing on the fields of art, design, and criminology.

Drawing on original documents, photographs, and detainee artwork, Bordered Lives offers a unique insight into the experience of immigration detention in the United Kingdom. With interdisciplinary backgrounds in art, design, and criminology, the authors present views of everyday life under this form of border control. In offering a glimpse within these hidden sites, they explore fundamental questions about coercion, censorship, and control, as well as belonging and resistance.

This book introduces the Immigration Detention Archive and reflects on the conditions under which art is supposed to be produced (and is undermined) in institutional spaces. Mixing shadow puppetry, photographic slides, video, architectural models, and spoken word, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll's performance Men in Waiting presents the effects of indeterminate detention, bureaucratic indifference, and banality on the subjectivity of the incarcerated.

Mary Bosworth is the director of the Centre for Criminology and fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, professor of Criminology at Monash University. In Oxford Mary directs Border Criminologies, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the intersections between criminal justice and border control.

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is an artist, professor, and chair of Global Art at the University of Birmingham.

Christoph Balzar is as an artist, curator, and mediator in Berlin who works in the field of art, art history, and anthropology of art.

This powerful and timely book comes from the immigration detention spaces where the politically unwanted but unguilty are kept at the behest of UK civil servants. It provides an insight into the inner world of a private run institution and its residents' narratives of escape, fear, incarceration, and their yet unrealized visions of hope. This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in migration or detention, or creative responses to these experiences.
Edmund Clark, artist and author of Negative Publicity and My Shadow's Reflection

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