Table of contents
Contents
List of figures ............................................................................................................................. 5
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................................... 6
Introduction............................................................................................................................ 10
Why immigration detention? ................................................................................................. 14
Locating and documenting immigration detention in Greece ................................................ 17
Conceptualising immigration detention ................................................................................. 22
Immigration detention in Greek literature .................................................................................. 23
Casting an interdisciplinary border criminologies perspective ........................................................... 25
Abolition: the elephant in detention .......................................................................................... 27
Resistance as a thread ............................................................................................................ 30
Thesis outline ....................................................................................................................... 31
Chapter 1: Witnessing immigration detention ..................................................................... 36
Locating the data across time ................................................................................................ 38
Thinking about the research ................................................................................................. 42
Methods, data collection and analysis .................................................................................... 44
Sources ............................................................................................................................... 44
Fieldwork phases .................................................................................................................. 45
Fieldwork in Petrou Ralli ...................................................................................................... 45
Participant observation........................................................................................................... 50
Ethical considerations of fieldwork inside immigration detention ..................................................... 51
Fieldwork in the community .................................................................................................... 55
Practitioner research or researching practice?................................................................................ 58
Images as method .................................................................................................................. 62
Analysing data in hindsight .................................................................................................... 62
Conclusion ........................................................................................................................... 63
Chapter 2: The hidden history of immigration detention in Greece (1990-2010) .............. 65
Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 65
Responding to the ‘shock’ of immigration (1990-2000) ......................................................... 68
Hiding and obscuring migration ............................................................................................... 71
Building the detention estate (2001-2009) ............................................................................. 75
A new phase in immigration law? ............................................................................................ 75
The boundaries of deterrence .................................................................................................... 79
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