... daily practices of exclusion. This essay explores paradoxical framings endemic to contemporary governance of migration: to make visible and invisible, to show some things while hiding others. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 carceral archipelago detention islands asylum seekers borders...

... incarceration of migrant bodies. That so many of these centers are located on islands lends geographic literalness to Foucault's metaphor of a carceral archipelago, in fact forming what Kaplan calls a “global penal archipelago” ( 2005: 831 ). 9 This global penal archipelago functions as a technology of...

... by Brand for his journal Co- Evolution Quarterly , that those who remained on Earth would become “living fossils” ( Brand 1977 : 56–60, 68). Moreover, O’Neill’s suggestion that the rapidly expanding archipelago of space colonies might contain species endangered on Earth hinted at an ark-like...