Immigration System: Justice Organizer and Ways Marks

immigration system: She talks about the graphic novel-style book Undocumented The Architecture of Migrant Detention, which she wrote and illustrated, according to Rabble. How we experience spaces and places is just as wrapped up in power and resistance as everything else in life. She is a migrant justice organizer, an artist, and a writer with training in architectural design. At the level of the nation, for instance, the power invested in borders keeps some people out and lets others in, and in a wide range of ways marks those who are admitted for different levels and kinds of harm and vulnerability and violence. Canada's immigration system -- notwithstanding all of the Liberal hype about its supposed gentle virtues -- embodies both of these things. At the scale of our everyday lives, buildings and landscapes are shaped by and can help to enact social relations -- to name a few examples, the form of houses in communities across North America reflect dominant assumptions about what makes a family; churches and mosques often embody principals of the faiths to which they are sacred; modern cityscapes are organized by and around the political dominance of fossil fuel industries and the private automobile; and solitary confinement units in prisons are a cruel crystallization of the violence of the carceral state. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.