ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows the importance of attending to a range of mobilities in the context of prison and migrant detention. It identifies various sets of existing debates about incarceration and confinement. The book highlights the importance of attending to immigration detention as it relates to both prison and migration, as well as integrating each of these into a holistic carceral framework. It explores various issues surrounding the role of space in penal settings. The interaction of virtual and actual carceral environments, which produces a circuit of prison and prisoner representations, appears to support Baudrillard's observations. The book underscores the rich symbolic, economic, political and social ways in which prisons and non-prisons share such 'symbiotic' relations. It focuses on the relationship between immigration detention and broader carceral spaces and practices.
