ABSTRACT
The chapter contributes to deeper understanding of the driving forces behind the expansion of detention regimes in the United States. It explains some of the ways that detainees' bodies, mundane everyday activities of social reproduction, and labour practices are bound up with the accumulation strategies of a range of economic and political actors. The chapter also highlights that additional circuits of accumulation operate at the micro level, in the intimate spheres of day-to-day existence in detention. It focuses on an ongoing research project conducting on the 'internal economies' of immigration detention in the greater New York City area. The chapter suggests that accumulation by dispossession also operates in detention and, more specifically, within micro-level, intimate economies of immigration detention. It also expands David Harvey's concept of accumulation by dispossession by putting it in conversation with a feminist approach to intimacy. Close scrutiny shows that there are circuits of accumulation and dispossession operating within the commissary system.
