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What is detention replacing right now in the US economy? Federal money is being cut all over the place for education, for healthcare, general money given to states for a lot of different things. That money is being taken away at the same time as things like detention come to the fore as an opportunity.

Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon join us to discuss their new book, Immigration Detention, Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants from Pluto Press. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.

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Guest

Deirdre Conlon

Deirdre Conlon is a critical geographer working in the US and Britain. Her work focuses on how immigration and border controls are proliferating as they are monetized. She is co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention and Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. She is Associate Professor based at the University of Leeds.

Guest

Nancy Hiemstra

Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, US.

The Political Economy of Immigration Detention / Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon

Deirdre Conlon

Nancy Hiemstra