ABSTRACT
This prologue describes how the author encountered a detainee protest that began in the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in March of 2015. This confrontation with the demands and collective actions of people held in detention spurred political and practical questions about how to organise with protesters held in prison-like spaces and how to represent the protest to others. As such, the prologue shows how activism generates the motivating questions of the book about the role of detainee activism in movements against borders and deportation, the nature of solidarity in this struggle, and the kinds of experimental and speculative relationships upon which radical activism relies.
