Women’s Immigration Detention in Greece: Gender, Control, and Capacity1 Mary Bosworth, Andriani Fili and Sharon Pickering University of Oxford and Monash University Forthcoming in Maria Joao Guia, Robert Koulish, Valsamis Mitislegas (Eds.). (2014). Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights. Springer. Introduction As states around the world have sought to reduce rates of irregular migration, many have deployed criminal justice agencies and institutions in the name of border control. Such actions have, somewhat belatedly, garnered the attention of criminologists, leading to the development of a vigorous field of inquiry known as the ‘criminology of mobility’ (Aas and Bosworth, 2013; see also, inter alia, Guia, van der Woude and van der Leun, 2012; Leerkes and Brodeurs, 2010; Pratt, 2005; Barker, 2013; Weber and Pickering, 2011; Pickering, 2014). As this body of literature has expanded, so too have the sites and methods of analysis in it. While, for the most part, much scholarship has been primarily theoretical or based on secondary and legal analysis (Aas, 2011; Welch and Schuster, 2005; Bosworth and Guild, 2008; Cornelisse, 2011), more recently, a handful of criminologists have begun to publish qualitative accounts of the nature and effect of border control (Bosworth, 2012; Fili, 2013; Kaufman, 2012; 2013; Kaufman and Bosworth, 2013; Gerard and Pickering, 2012).2 1 The fieldwork for this paper was conducted by Andriani Fili from November 2011 – February 2012, supported by the Oxford University Research Support Fund at the Faculty of Law as well as by Australian Research Council Future Fellowship of Sharon Pickering. Mary Bosworth would also like to acknowledge funding from the European Research Council, Starter Grant, 313362 in writing up the project. Where possible interviews were digitally recorded and then fully transcribed and translated into English by Andriani Fili. Others were recorded in note form and then translated into English. All interviewees have been anonymised. More information about this ongoing research can be found at www.borderobservatory.org and http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk. 2 If we include anthropology, politics and geography, the volume of ethnographic research expands as does the amount of theoretical work on border control (On the former, see, for example, Hall, 2010; 2012; Mountz, 2012; Gill, 2010, on the latter, see Makaremi, 2009; De Genova and Peultz, 2010; Fassin, 2011). 1