Author: Timothy Anderson

Huttunen, Laura and Gerhild Perls (eds). An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. Berghahn. 2023. 298 pp. ISBN: 978-1-80539-072-5 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-80539-364-1 (ebook).

The detention of irregular migrants in the European Union has increasedin scope and intensity in the years following the 2016 ‘refugee crisis’.Detention is usually codified as an administrative practice, a neutral routinenecessary for the surveillance …