As former Minister of Immigration Policy with Syriza, Giannis Mouzalas, asserted, not so long after they came into power, ‘there can be no immigration policy without closed hospitality centres’ (Georgiopoulou, 2016). While unavoidably some remodelling has been observed over time, this chapter concludes that containment practices of immobility in Greece are enduring in time and employed by all governing parties. ‘This refutes a left-right dichotomy and points to the racialised dynamics of immigration control, informed by dominant and shared discourses of securitization and illegalization of migrants’ (Karamanidou, 2016, p. 14). However, Greek governments have not been alone in building, expanding and feeding the detention estate. The next chapters address the world outside of detention and aim to explain how have extreme forms of violence been normalised. By connecting detention centres to the outside, I aim to explain—and resist—the impulse to detain. In order to understand the meaning of detention politics, we need to look outside its four walls and into the domains of politics, society and culture. Through foregrounding the role of monitors, the police and NGOs, the following documents the different ways that the detention system has been insulated from threats to its existence. 122