Ergon Eksivrisi (2007) and the master’s dissertation of the architect Ioulia Iliadi (2015), which both include sketches that aim to recreate the detention spaces of facilities in Athens. In so doing, these unconventional pieces are rare mapping documents of spatial storytelling and visual mapping of obscure spaces. Kristiana Kiritsi (2014) also uses the Corinth pre-removal detention centre and the local community as a case study for her exploration of the interaction between spatial and social relationships. Against this context, the in-depth exploration of immigration detention centres, mainly located in Athens, is timely and due. After all, I see these confinement institutions as borders of the Greek state. Casting an interdisciplinary border criminologies perspective While my focus has been on the growing body of criminological research into immigration detention (Bosworth, 2012; 2013; 2014; Bosworth, Hasselberg, & Turnbull, 2016; Canning, 2020; Grewcock, 2010; Leerkes and Brodeurs, 2010; Malloch and Stanley, 2005; Miller, 2002; Pratt, 2005; Turnbull, 2016; Ugelvik and Damsa, 2018; Welch, 2002), the thesis also borrows from other disciplines, which have produced captivating accounts of life inside immigration detention centres around the world and located immigration detention in larger debates about border control, like migration studies (Silverman, 2014; Silverman and Massa, 2012; Mainwaring and Silverman, 2017),anthropology and psychology (De Genova, 2016; 2010; Fassin, 2011; Fischer, 2013a; 2013b; 2015; Griffiths, 2012; 2013; Hall, 2010; 2012; Hasselberg, 2016; Kronick, et al., 2018), geography (Coleman and Kocher, 2011; Conlon and Hiemstra, 2016; Gill, 2009; Hiemstra, 2013; 2019; Loyd et al., 2013; Loyd and Mountz, 2018; Moran et al., 2013; Mountz, 2011; Turner and Peters, 2017) and sociology (Barker, 2013; Kreichauf, 2021; Schuster, 2005; Schuster and Bloch, 2005; Schuster and Majidi, 2013; Welch and Schuster, 2005a; 2005b). This diverse body of work has been useful in building the scaffolding of my theoretical arguments and it has also been instrumental in putting the Greek case into a global (Aas and Bosworth, 2013) and transnational (Loyd and Mountz, 2018) perspective. It is in dialogue with border criminology and in debt to the range of insightful work cited above, where this thesis hopes to belong. A very small portion of the literature produced internationally on immigration detention is based on independent research conducted inside custodial centres. Access to these opaque institutions, is severely constrained by key stakeholders. The lack of empirical 25