Gregory Constantine • Seven Doors: An American Gulag

“Today, immigration detention is a central component of immigration and asylum policy for governments around the world. In the United States, over 46,000 immigrants are detained each day in a web of prison-like detention centers while they wait for their asylum claims to be heard. Media coverage and policy discussion of immigration is often defined by the politicized optics of border crossings. Moreover, the visual translation of the use of immigration detention, especially in the United States, is usually reduced down to infographics or illustrated maps. But how much does the US public really know about the scale and scope of this system and the trauma it inflicts on people?”