Undocumented - The Architecture Of Migrant Detention - Softcover

Tings Chak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9492058006 ISBN 13: 9789492058003

Publisher: The Architecture Observer, 2014

Synopsis

Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention details the banality and violence of the architecture of these centres and contrasts them with stories of daily resistance among immigration detainees. This book explores migrant detention centres, a global industry and the fastest growing incarceration sector in North America's prison industrial complex, and questions the role of architectural design in the control and management of migrants in such spaces. Using the conventional architectural tools of representation, the book draws from the shadows the silenced voices of those who are detained and it confronts the anonymous individuals who design spaces of confinement.

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Review

This slim book does not only contain more detail of the architecture of detention centres than some scholarly works on the architecture of incarceration, but it begins to outline the invisible experience of hidden-away people in hidden-away places.' --Raphael Sperry, President of Architects/Planners/Designers for Social Responsibility (ADPSR-USA)

Even after the 20th century s concentration camps and Michel Foucault s theory of the Panopticon, Architecture arguably maintains its identity as a project cultural enrichment and social uplift. Tapping a darker side of Architecture s enlightenment legacy, this remarkable graphic novel by Tings Chak documents Canadian detention centers and sites for processing individuals whose residency is in question, revealing often hidden equations between architecture, political power and human rights. --- Richard Sommer, Dean of John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto

Tings Chak has produced an essential resource for migrant justice and prison abolition movements. The architecture of incarceration - the maze of cameras, locks, guards, fluorescent lights, crammed cells - shatters the government myth of migrant detention as a hotel. By being attune to the simple details, this graphic novel brilliantly subverts what is supposed to remain invisible and locked away." --- Harsha Walia, Co-founder of No One Is Illegal and author of Undoing Border Imperialism

Edition details

• Publisher: The Architecture Observer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9492058006
• ISBN 13: 9789492058003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112