Detention and Deportation in Europe : Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of Covid-19

This powerful volume brings together scholars, activists, artists and experts-by-experience offering a radical critique of immigration detention and border carceral regimes more broadly, testifying to their inherent harms.

The contributors critically examine how COVID-19 intensified state control, abandonment, and marginalisation while highlighting inspiring acts of resistance and solidarity. Combining abolitionist and no-border perspectives alongside critical scholarly analysis, the book offers urgent insights into dismantling oppressive detention infrastructures and building caring communities.

Essential reading for academics, practitioners and activists committed to social justice, human rights and imagining abolitionist futures beyond borders and systems of incarceration.

Francesca Esposito is Researcher in the Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari” at the University of Bologna, and Research Associate at the Centre for Social Justice Research at the University of Westminster and at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford.

Teresa Degenhardt is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Queen’s University Belfast and Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.

Annika Lindberg is Assistant Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bern.