
Emma Patchett
@eepwrites
lecturer & researcher: critical legal theory , law and film, law and literature, critical legal geography
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20-12-2013 10:08:28
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Man dies in detention at immigration detention centre near Gatwick airport Gatwick Detainees said “Brook House is prison architecture and no one should take their last breath there. We mourn that a young man died before he could be free.” Borders kill. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…







'Fisher's grotesque stratigraphic imaginary conceptualises place as formed from a riot of cultural, social, and political detritus...cracks are generated by the desires of a common, transtemporal and transpatial struggle.' Callum Sutherland journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…


"We are strange and unbelonging. Yes. We are just enough of ourselves to catch the wind in our feathers, and fly so perfectly away." - The Ragged and the Beautiful Safiya Sinclair poetryfoundation.org/poems/155740/t…





‘Embracing the mess’ of entangled space,place&research: ‘unpacking complicity w/n systems we critique is messy.Yet sitting with discomfort &untidiness is central to a research praxis committed to change’ @sam_odonnell_, @BreeAnderson199 Dr Kajsa Lundberg blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino…


🚨 'UK to deny citizenship to small boat refugees' - Colin Yeo of Garden Court Chambers quoted in BBC News (UK) on new Home Office guidance: "clear breach of the refugee convention" 🚨 Read the article here 🔽 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #RefugeeConvention #ImmigrationLaw



My review of 'Immigration detention and social harm – The collateral impacts of migrant incarceration', edited by Dr Michelle Peterie Carceral Geography carceralgeographies.co.uk/book-review-im…