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  • Crossing Into Canada

    Stories from Two Generations of US War Resisters

    Edited by Alison Mountz ...
    These powerful first-hand accounts of two generations of US war resisters track their search for safe haven in Canada and the assistance of the activists who supported them. During the war in Vietnam, Canada offered refuge to over 100,000 people fleeing conscription. More recently, approximately 300 US military personnel sought refuge as resisters against wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These two ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Let Geography Die

    Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard

    by Alison Mountz, Kira Williams ...
    An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University’s geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional politics.Let Geography Die tells the little-known and oft-misunderstood story of geographical research and education at Harvard University. In investigative fashion, Alison Mountz and Kira Williams unearth the personal and institutional secrets ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Death of Asylum

    Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

    by Alison Mountz ...
    Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violationsRemote detention centers confine tens of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants around the world, operating in a legal gray area that hides terrible human rights abuses from the international community. Built to temporarily house eight hundred ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Boats, Borders, and Bases

    Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States

    by Jenna M. Loyd, Alison Mountz ...
    Discussions about U.S. migration policing have traditionally focused on enforcement along the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary. Enforcement practices such as detention policies designed to restrict access to asylum also transpire in the Caribbean. Boats, Borders, and Bases tells a missing, racialized history of the U.S. migration detention system that was developed and expanded to deter Haitian ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Key Concepts in Political Geography

    by Carolyn Gallaher, Mary Gilmartin, Alison Mountz, Peter Shirlow, Carl T Dahlman ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive reader for my political geography course. Good summaries at the end, and articles include effective case study examples."- Rachel Paul, Western Washington University"A very useful and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in political geography. This book provides useful context not just for ′traditional′ political geography modules, but also those examining broader issues of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Beyond Walls and Cages

    Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

    by Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Bob Libal, Christopher Stenken, Cynthia Bejarano, Jodie Lawston, Joshua M. Price, Laura McTighe, Lauren Martin, Margo Tamez, Maria Morales0, Mariana Viturro1, Micol Seigel2, Monica Varsanyi3, Nicole Porter4, Olga Aksyutina5, Proma Tagore6, Rashad Shabazz7, Renee Feltz8, Ruben R. Murillo9, Said Saddiki0, Stokely Baksh1, Subhash Kateel2, Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka3, Jenna M. Loyd5, Joseph Nevins8, Borderlands Autonomist Collective9, Luis A. Fernandez0, Ruth Wilson Gilmore1, Amy Gottlieb2, Gael Guevara3, Julianne Hing4, Elizabeth Vargas5, Harsha Walia6, Seth Freed Wessler7 ...
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    The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison ... Read more

    $69.29 USD