[Air-L] Seeking literature on Internet access in prisons and detention facilities

Mon Jul 13 23:54:03 PDT 2020

Hi Muira,

I'm not sure if they are already on your radar, but there are some recent pieces on communicative practices of refugees and irregularized migrants living in camps and detention centers, 

See for example 

Stavinoha, L. (2019). Communicative acts of citizenship: Contesting Europe’s border in and through the
media. International Journal of Communication, 13, 1212–1230.

Also Behrous Boochani's story might be interesting 

in the Pacific, Behrouz Boochani offered a poetic first-person account of his experiences being held in Aus- tralia’s offshore detention center Manus Island. His award- winning book No Friends but the Mountains, typed out on a mobile phone and shared via WhatsApp, offers a portrait of life in detention, including emotional and psychological pressures, starvation, and insomnia, among others, through his unique self-composed discourse:
The government have constructed this system and they create terms to establish and reinforce their power... I avoid using their language as much as I can... through literature I can do whatever I like. I create my own discourse and do not succumb to the language of oppressive power. I create my own language for critically analysing the phenomenon of Manus Prison. (Boochani 2018, 266)

Boochani, Behrouz. 2018. No Friend but the Mountains: Writings from Manus Prison. Translated by Omid Tofighian. Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan Australia.

Rae M, Holman R, Nethery A. Self-represented witnessing: The use of social media by asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore immigration detention centres. Media Cult Soc. 2018;40(4):479–95.

And a paper I wrote could be of interest, Leurs, K. (2017). Communication rights from the margins. Politicizing young refugees’ smart phone pocket
archives. International Communication Gazette, 79 (6-7), 674-698

Hope this helps - can you kindly share literature you received back to the list? 

Warm wishes from Utrecht,

Koen.

Assistant professor Gender & Postcolonial Studies | Graduate Gender Programme | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV room 1.09 | T. + 31 30 253 7844| www.koenleurs.net <http://www.koenleurs.net/>
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Recent publications:
-Sage Handbook of Media and Migration <https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-media-and-migration/book260835> (2020), edited with Kevin Smets, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika Gajjala 
-Transnational connectivity and the affective paradoxes of digital care labour: Exploring how young refugees technologically mediate co-presence <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323119886166> (2019), European Journal of Communication
-Practicing critical media literacy education with/for young migrants: Lessons learned from a participatory action research project <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048519883511> (2019), International Communication Gazette, with Hemmo Bruinenberg, Ena Omérovic & Sanne Sprenger 

On 14/07/2020, 04:21, "Air-L on behalf of Muira McCammon" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of muira.n.mccammon at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi, all,

    I wanted to reach out to this listserv to connect with folks, who have
    published on the topic of Internet access (or lack thereof) in prisons as
    well as the communication practices and/or digital rights of detained and
    incarcerated populations. I've tried to keep up with scholarship/literature
    on this topic over the years, but I'm sure I've missed a keyword or
    database. If you've published on this topic, I'd love to hear from you and
    if the stars align, cite you. I'm particularly interested in what happens
    when the "Internet as a human right" discourses collide with carceral
    logics.

    I do apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere/previously in the
    archive.

    Thank you,

    Muira

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