Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-03-11DOI: 10.1111/johs.12416
Craig Campbell
{"title":"Introduction to the Carceral Edgelands: Special Issue","authors":"Craig Campbell","doi":"10.1111/johs.12416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"5-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50128920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1111/johs.12414
Randolph Lewis
{"title":"Stay in Your Lane: The Magic of Neoliberal Proximity","authors":"Randolph Lewis","doi":"10.1111/johs.12414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50116847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-26DOI: 10.1111/johs.12408
Lilia Loera
{"title":"Zero Matching Records Found: Enforced Disappearance in the Carceral Web Landscape","authors":"Lilia Loera","doi":"10.1111/johs.12408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12408","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officially launched its online locator system, an internet-based public tool designed to assist attorneys, family members, and interested entities in locating detained individuals in ICE custody. In November 2019, Freedom For Immigrants (FFI), an immigrant rights organization, conducted surveys of individuals and organizations attempting to locate detainees and found 698 instances of migrants disappearing from the online locator system, with the search stating “zero matching records.” With this in mind, this essay explores technologies of invisibility of the carceral web through ethnographic observation and testimonies collected in immigration detention. I use the term “carceral web” by Susila Gurusami to refer to the spatial intersection between carceral institutions and digital technologies that unveil the entanglements and workings of the carceral edgelands. I argue that the ICE locator system, a public tool for migrant identification and placement, not only showcases state-enforced disappearance but reveals a process of invisibilization and structural violence temporally and spatially at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"60-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50121285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1111/johs.12400
Jerónimo Reyes-Retana
{"title":"A narration of x-o.global: First steps towards the perversion of GPS in the tropical cartographies of Latin American migration","authors":"Jerónimo Reyes-Retana","doi":"10.1111/johs.12400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12400","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last ten years, the democratization of smartphones has become a vital factor in closing the ties between mobile technologies and migratory flows that entail cultural integration processes. Official reports published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) demonstrate how, for people in a context of mobility, smartphones represent not only an essential navigation tool, but also an almost sacred artifact providing emotional resilience to complete arduous journeys of forced displacement. x-o.global recognizes and addresses this situation by proposing an alternative usage of smartphones and the Global Positioning System (GPS) through a geolocative platform that enables interactive spaces for auditory stimulation. By inserting GPS-sensitive sound maps into sites offering humanitarian support across the Latin American migratory pathways, x-o.global enables interactive experiences connecting virtuality with reality. As a project uprooting from the grounds of socially engaged and cross-platform art-making, x-o.global's framework looks forward to instigating tropicalized processes capable of reprogramming global networks of technological control—such GPS—to overhaul the migratory crisis in The Americas.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"78-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50149397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}