Indefinite immigration detention strands migrants in a jail-like purgatory without a release date.

Evidence

I was working in the kitchen and I went to the gym. At first I trained this Vietnamese woman, Van, beautiful woman, then I trained some other Vietnamese bredda [brother]. And then trained some Albanians and all that, with the gym ting. But after a while … because you haven’t got a leave date, like in jail, to look forward to, and you don’t really know when you’re getting out, you’re stuck in purgatory. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 52

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘stuck in purgatory’ framing echoes detainee descriptions in border/immigration-detention scholarship and journalism; connects to the author’s broader argument about conviviality amid overpolicing. — connects to: Immigration detention can imprison people who committed no crime — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 159; Immigration detention routinely far outlasts the government’s stated timelines; Immigration detainees shared facilities with criminal prisoners and faced months-long incarceration (+1 more)
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 52

Related

• Immigration detention can imprison people who committed no crime (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Immigration detention can imprison people who committed no crime #expands (0.85) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 159
• Immigration detainees shared facilities with criminal prisoners and faced months-long incarceration #expands (0.85)
• Immigration detention routinely far outlasts the government’s stated timelines #corroborates (0.82)
• Indefinite detention camps for non-citizens have deep antecedents in modern nation-state practice #expands (0.72) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 406