...Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir Since 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of at what point the medical clinic becomes a site of punitive suffering. This essay examines force-feeding...

... in humanitarian practice. Drawing from ethnographic research with a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders mental health project in the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut, it argues that in conditions of chronic need, and in circumstances where it is nearly...

...Laura Junka Duke University Press 2006 Figure 1  Aesthetics of Gaza Beach during the intifada al-Aqsa. Photo: Laura Junka P H O T O - E S S AY Camping in the Third Space: Agency, Representation...

..., particularly those who were sent to concentration camps for homosexuals called UMAPs or Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Produccion (Military Units to Aid Production). But the story is best chronicled through the lives of so many exceptional writers, and a few great ones, nearly all of whom first...

...: that of an emaciated man behind the barbed wire of a Bosnian Serb concentration camp in the Prijedor region.6 There has been, of course, much to criticize with respect to the use of U.S. power globally, the international community’s wholly inconsistent concern for genocide in the post – World War II period...

...Irit Katz Feigis This essay offers an analysis of the architectural environment of the Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza, examined through a comparison of Deleuze and Guattari's “minor literature” interpreting Kafka's work. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 An early Hebrew...

...Kevin Lewis O’Neill; Jatin Dua Despite the number of people held at this very moment inside prisons, detention centers, black sites, reformatories, stockades, refugee camps, and even the hulls of ships, there has been surprisingly little self-consciousness about the analytical power of captivity...

... refugee and migrant , the fraught vocabulary of settlement and unsettlement (involving the translation of terms like indigeneity , occupation , detention zone , and camp ), shibboleth tests and the foreclosure of the right to residency (which amounts to the passporting of speech), and the multilingual...

...Irene Peano Abstract This essay explores the author's engaged research trajectory into several agro-industrial enclaves in contemporary Italy. Stemming from solidarity work in support of migrant laborers living in slums and camps, and of their demands for legal recognition and better living...

...Emma Shaw Crane Abstract This essay develops the idea of the “suburban periphery”: a place of municipal and imperial dirty work, produced by circulations and dispossessions across scale. Homestead, Florida, a suburb of Miami, is home to a military base, a detention camp for migrant children...

... was the introduction of the delóseis metanoias (declarations of repentance) that were to be extracted by any means from the members of the Left.4 These means included coercion, imprisonment, torture, and exile to concentration camps in faraway islands of the Greek archipelago,5 and they aimed at extracting from...

..., and constituted, in my first book, The Ideal Refugees ( Fiddian-Qasmiyeh 2014a) . This book examined how, why, and to what effect refugees from the non-self-governing territory of the Western Sahara (known as Sahrawi refugees), who have been based in refugee camps in Southwest Algeria since 1975, have...

... to a relocation camp on the withered, arid plain of central Idaho. Many families left behind whatever they couldn’t carry or sell in the basement of the Panama Hotel: trunks, furniture, clothes, dishes, family portraits, fishing poles, ironing boards, incomplete address books, tool chests (in one...

... country ethics of eponymy VENI—VIDI—VICI —Boast on billions of packs of Marlboro cigarettes In February 1996, Philip Morris purchased a tobacco factory on the grounds of a former extermination camp. Here, inside three of the same buildings used by the SS to torture and execute prisoners from...

... and Iraq, with prolonged ideological campaigns contra both internal and external “enemies.” In the current “war on terror,” the American military facility at Camp Delta in Guantánamo Bay is the most spectacular, and publicly debated, theater. I briefly attempt to examine here the consequences...

... and men, she had been sent to what people in the region commonly refer to as a “reeducation camp” (Ch: zaijiaoyuying ; Uy: jaza lagıri ). Cameras and audio recording systems monitored detainee movements, ensuring they abided by rules against covering their faces, sitting on their beds except during...

..., as the Italian far right insisted, but to powerful groups ranging from the camp bureaucracy to the Mafia, and from politicians to businesses with a finger in the pie of migration controls. Migrants and refugees frequently describe their treatment at Europe’s borders as a racket. “This place is a business...

...* Beijing (Reuters)-China, facing persistent overseas charges of torture and mis- treatment in its prisons and labour-reform camps, said on Wednesday jail condi- tions were so good inmates even enjoy karaoke bars and art salons. “Good conditions...