A. Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics

“…The temporality experienced by refugees and asylum seekers waiting to be processed through unrelentingly slow and multiple bureaucracies that are habitually hostile to migrants combined with xenophobia within many host countries places national interests ahead of the needs of vulnerable populations seeking refuge, which often manifests into multiple displacements (McIlwaine and Evans, 2022;Mountz, 2010Mountz, , 2020Wahab and Ashutosh, 2022). Additionally, the massive number of people seeking refuge outside their home countries is itself a crisis of care, management, and governance, that dehumanizes, retraumatizes, and continuously places migrants in spaces and situations of increased vulnerability (Ehrkamp et al, 2022).…”

Introduction: the production of irregular migration

“…Australia's offshore asylum regime is the most well-known example of this policy of offshoring (Missbach 2015). But pre-boarding checks at "risky" airports are also part of this policy and a global chain of remote sites used by states of the Global North to confine migrants (Mountz 2020). EU migration policies also carry an ambiguous gender bias which seriously hampers migrant women's opportunities in their destination countries (Van Liempt 2011, Marchetti andSalih 2017;see also Schrover in this Handbook).…”

“…In the 21st century, irregularity is inherently related to the lack of legal migration channels, and, in particular, the deterioration of asylum (Mountz 2020). One clear-cut example comes from the moment that Syria turned into a war zone.…”

Surveillance and Security in Immigrant Detention Centres in Poland. An Overview of Key Technologies and Practices

“…Detention of immigrants has been enjoying high levels of interest among researchers and students of broadly understood critical security and migration studies (Bloch and Schuster 2005;Bosworth 2014;Mountz 2021;Schmidt 2021;Tazzioli 2018). The literature indicates that detention of immigrants is one of key governmental mechanisms that entangle the realm of national security and risk management with human mobility and migration policies (Mountz 2015;.…”

“…Detention of immigrants is a global phenomenon which has become more known in public discourse in the aftermath of the so called War on Terror, when immigrant detention became more visible in the media in the form of detention rooms in airports, repurposed military facilities, remote islands, former penitentiary buildings, etc. (Mountz 2021;Niedźwiedzki et al 2021:15). For the public opinion detention is still somehow a broad and often misinterpreted term.…”