Undocumented : the architecture of migrant detention / by Tings Chak.

Main entry:

Chak, Tings, author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Undocumented : the architecture of migrant detention / by Tings Chak.

Publication:

Montreal ; Amsterdam : Architecture Observer, [2014]
©2014

Description:

111 pages : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Title and statement of responsibility from cover; book has no title page.

Summary:

"This thesis explores migrant detention centres in Canada, the fastest growing incarceration sector in North America's prison industrial complex, and questions the role of architectural design in the control and management of migrant bodies in such spaces. Migrants are detained primarily because they are undocumented. Likewise, these sites of detention bare little trace -- drawings and photos are classified; access is extremely limited. The detention centres, too, are undocumented. The purpose of this investigation is to make visible the sites and stories of detention, to bring them into conversations about our built environment, and to highlight migrant detention as an architectural problem. Through the loosely defined medium of the graphic novel, this thesis presents an architectural tour of the genericized migrant detention centre. Using the conventional architectural tools of representation -- plan, section, axonometric and perspective drawings -- presented sequentially and accompanied by text, we confront the silenced voices of those who are detained and the anonymous individuals who design spaces of confinement"--Author's website

ISBN:

9492058006 (paperback)
9789492058003 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture.
Correctional institutions Design and construction.
Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Noncitizens Canada.
Immigrants Canada Social conditions.
Immigration enforcement Canada.
Prisons Design and construction.
Illegal immigration Canada.
Noncitizens.
Noncitizen detention centers Canada Comic books, strips, etc.
Noncitizens Canada Comic books, strips, etc.
Undocumented Immigrants
Centres de détention (Immigration) Canada Bandes dessinées.
Immigrants clandestins Canada Bandes dessinées.
Établissements de correction Conception et construction.
Émigration et immigration Aspect social.
Émigration et immigration Lois Application Canada.
Prisons Conception et construction.
Immigration clandestine Canada.
Immigrants clandestins.
architecture (discipline)
Noncitizen detention centers
Illegal immigration
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants Social conditions
Immigration enforcement
Canada Emigration and immigration.
Canada

Form/genre:

Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
Bandes dessinées.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287110
Call No.: BIB 227917
Status: Available

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