Citizenship Studies special issue (vol 25, issue 02): Decarceral Futures: Bridging Migrant and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future

Citizenship Studies has just published our special issue (vol 25, issue 02)  entitled “Decarceral Futures: Bridging Migrant and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future.”

A range of contributors interrogate a “carceral abolitionism” position to citizenship studies, with immigration detention as the key case study.

Here is a link to free eprints of the editorial introduction: 

Here is the Table of Contents for our issue:

Decarceral Futures: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future
Sharry Aiken & Stephanie J. Silverman
 
Mutual aid as abolitionist praxis
Simone Weil Davis & Rachel Fayter
 
States and human immobilization: bridging the conceptual separation of slavery, immigration controls, and mass incarceration
Nandita Sharma
 
Crisis, capital accumulation, and the ‘Crimmigration’ fix in the aftermath of the global slump
Jessica Evans
 
Held at the gates of Europe: barriers to abolishing immigration detention in Turkey
Esra S. Kaytaz
 
Substituting immigration detention centres with ‘open prisons’ in Indonesia: alternatives to detention as the continuum of unfreedom
Antje Missbach

ICE comes to Tennessee: violence work and abolition in the Appalachian South
Michelle Brown

Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada
Salina Abji & Lindsay Larios
 
Immigration status and policing in Canada: current problems, activist strategies and abolitionist visions
David Moffette
 
Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi: relational securitization in the settler colonial racial state
Nisha Nath

KJ