D Conlon
Biographic Data
| ID | 26360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Conlon |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Conlon |
| SIGNATURE | CONLON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4063-7914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 519 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Climbing a paper mountain: Academic publishing at a critical juncture
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry
Withdrawn: Making spaces for debate in the digital age
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Making spaces for debate in the digital age
Withdrawal notice to 'Making spaces for debate in the digital age' [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, http://10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Conference Organizing in the Hybrid Age: Lessons from the Fourth International Feminist Geography Conference
The 4th International Feminist Geography Conference, Pushing Boundaries, was held both virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 15–17 June 2022. The goal of the conference was to bring together feminist geographers from around the world to share their work, exchange ideas, and build professional connections toward advancing feminist scholarship. In this article, four of the conference organizers come together to share the…
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK's Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control
Increasingly, irregularized migrants are pushed to rely on more and more clandestine means in attempts to reach so-called safe havens in Europe and elsewhere. Often, these actions are necessitated by governments instituting ever-more hostile and violent mechanisms of immigration control. Taking as its focus key developments in the UK’s morphing and expanding ‘quasi-carceral geography’ of immigration control, this paper considers some of these dev…
Unpleasant’ but ‘helpful’: Immigration detention and urban entanglements in New Jersey, USA
As a reflection of changing geographies of US migration control, when Essex County, New Jersey’s local government adopted a new immigration detention contract with the federal government, an elected official noted: ‘This is a very unpleasant way of getting revenue...But it’s going to be helpful.’ Despite politically liberal leanings as well as active and expanding resistance to a persistently conservative immigration enforcement agenda from the n…
The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement
Displacement occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary geographical thought. Displacement through gentrification and regeneration has gained prominence in critical urban geography, even as critical migration, border, and citizenship studies have simultaneously produced a robust literature on transnational displacement and internally displaced persons. In response to emerging crises of global and urban order, this article adds to a considerat…
Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control
In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies, including border encampment in Thailand, deprivation in U.S. immigration detention centers, and deterrence through destitution in the United Kingdom, demonstrate that circuits of value depend on the …
Unsettling state(s): On reading Nothing Personal? Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
Beyond privatization: Bureaucratization and the spatialities of immigration detention expansion
Beyond privatization: bureaucratization and the spatialities of immigration detention expansion. Territory, Politics, Governance. Immigration detention has become central to models of immigration enforcement in the United States and globally. This paper elaborates a conceptual framework to facilitate critical understanding of detention’s proliferation that goes beyond the role of privatization as well as beyond public–private sector relationships…
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical perspectives
International migration has been described as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. While a lot is known about the complex nature of migratory flows, surprisingly little attention has been given to one of the most prominent responses by governments to human mobility: the practice of immigration detention. Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention provides a timely intervention, offering much needed scrutiny of the ideologies, …
Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography
Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This article opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of ‘circuits’ to critically enquire into the carceral. Drawing inspiration from Harvey (1982; 1985), the article makes circuits do fresh work, teasing apart the e…
Examining the everyday micro-economies of migrant detention in the United States
Securitization of immigration, the rise of interior immigration policing, and forces of carceral privatization have occasioned a remarkable expansion of immigrant detention throughout the United States. Previous studies have drawn attention to the importance of the daily rates paid by the federal government to individual facilities in driving the emphasis on detention. This paper, in contrast, argues that tracing the political and economic geogra…
The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like de…
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
Contents: Introduction, Dominique Moran, Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill Part I Mobility: On mobilities and migrations, Alison Mountz Mobility versus liberty? The punitive uses of movement within and outside carceral environments, Nick Gill Mobility and power in detention: the management of internal movement and governmental mobility in Romania, BA(c)nA(c)dicte Michalon a You dona (TM)t even know where you area (TM): chaotic geographies of US migran…
Gagging orders: Asylum Seekers and Paradoxes of Freedom and Protest in Liberal Society
The detention of non-status migrants is now commonplace in developed countries. Detention has been justified on such grounds as security, the welfare of non-status migrant populations, and as a way to speed up processing asylum claims. Drawing from the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's sustained interest in themes of migration and belonging, this article examines the relationships between technologies of government in detention and accommodation facili…
Why wait? Practice, politics, and percipience in Timepass
Waiting: Feminist perspectives on the spacings/timings of migrant (im)mobility
Waiting is a banal and ubiquitous practice that is linked in myriad ways to mobility and (im)mobility in the contemporary era. Yet, to date, experiences of waiting have received scant conceptual and/or research attention among scholars. Introducing a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture, this article highlights how a focus on temporal and spatial encounters with waiting and (im)mobility among migrants extends established areas of interest …
A fractured mosaic: Encounters with the everyday amongst refugee and asylum seeker women
In his critique of everyday life, Henri Lefebvre called for an understanding of the everyday as a complex, fragmentary and dynamic constellation. Apprehending everyday life in this way complements the calls – from scholars of migration geography in particular – to ground meta‐narratives of globalisation and mobility within the physical locales, material objects and social and spatial practices where the daily lives of migrants actually unfold. Th…
Ties That Bind: Governmentality, the State, and Asylum in Contemporary Ireland
Coinciding with the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' boom of the 1990s, Ireland experienced a momentous shift in long-standing patterns of migration, with significant in-migration and an unprecedented change in population dynamics. Asylum seekers form a small and noteworthy group within the population in association with several recent legislative changes. In 2003 a previously granted guarantee of residency rights for so-called 'non-national' migrant par…
Productive Bodies, Performative Spaces: Everyday Life in Christopher Park
Christopher Park at Sheridan Square, a small public park geographically located at the heart of the bohemian Greenwich Village neighborhood, is often presented as the nexus of New York's gay scene with the historical significance of the area for the gay rights movement in America frequently cited. In a multi-method case study of Christopher Park I draw on Henri Lefebvre's theory on the production of space and Judith Butler's theory of performativ…
Waiting: Feminist perspectives on the spacings/timings of migrant (im)mobility
Waiting is a banal and ubiquitous practice that is linked in myriad ways to mobility and (im)mobility in the contemporary era. Yet, to date, experiences of waiting have received scant conceptual and/or research attention among scholars. Introducing a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture, this article highlights how a focus on temporal and spatial encounters with waiting and (im)mobility among migrants extends established areas of interest …
Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography
Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This article opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of ‘circuits’ to critically enquire into the carceral. Drawing inspiration from Harvey (1982; 1985), the article makes circuits do fresh work, teasing apart the e…
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
Contents: Introduction, Dominique Moran, Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill Part I Mobility: On mobilities and migrations, Alison Mountz Mobility versus liberty? The punitive uses of movement within and outside carceral environments, Nick Gill Mobility and power in detention: the management of internal movement and governmental mobility in Romania, BA(c)nA(c)dicte Michalon a You dona (TM)t even know where you area (TM): chaotic geographies of US migran…
Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control
In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies, including border encampment in Thailand, deprivation in U.S. immigration detention centers, and deterrence through destitution in the United Kingdom, demonstrate that circuits of value depend on the …
Ties That Bind: Governmentality, the State, and Asylum in Contemporary Ireland
Coinciding with the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' boom of the 1990s, Ireland experienced a momentous shift in long-standing patterns of migration, with significant in-migration and an unprecedented change in population dynamics. Asylum seekers form a small and noteworthy group within the population in association with several recent legislative changes. In 2003 a previously granted guarantee of residency rights for so-called 'non-national' migrant par…
Productive Bodies, Performative Spaces: Everyday Life in Christopher Park
Christopher Park at Sheridan Square, a small public park geographically located at the heart of the bohemian Greenwich Village neighborhood, is often presented as the nexus of New York's gay scene with the historical significance of the area for the gay rights movement in America frequently cited. In a multi-method case study of Christopher Park I draw on Henri Lefebvre's theory on the production of space and Judith Butler's theory of performativ…
Beyond privatization: Bureaucratization and the spatialities of immigration detention expansion
Beyond privatization: bureaucratization and the spatialities of immigration detention expansion. Territory, Politics, Governance. Immigration detention has become central to models of immigration enforcement in the United States and globally. This paper elaborates a conceptual framework to facilitate critical understanding of detention’s proliferation that goes beyond the role of privatization as well as beyond public–private sector relationships…
The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like de…
Gagging orders: Asylum Seekers and Paradoxes of Freedom and Protest in Liberal Society
The detention of non-status migrants is now commonplace in developed countries. Detention has been justified on such grounds as security, the welfare of non-status migrant populations, and as a way to speed up processing asylum claims. Drawing from the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's sustained interest in themes of migration and belonging, this article examines the relationships between technologies of government in detention and accommodation facili…
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical perspectives
International migration has been described as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. While a lot is known about the complex nature of migratory flows, surprisingly little attention has been given to one of the most prominent responses by governments to human mobility: the practice of immigration detention. Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention provides a timely intervention, offering much needed scrutiny of the ideologies, …
A fractured mosaic: Encounters with the everyday amongst refugee and asylum seeker women
In his critique of everyday life, Henri Lefebvre called for an understanding of the everyday as a complex, fragmentary and dynamic constellation. Apprehending everyday life in this way complements the calls – from scholars of migration geography in particular – to ground meta‐narratives of globalisation and mobility within the physical locales, material objects and social and spatial practices where the daily lives of migrants actually unfold. Th…
The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement
Displacement occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary geographical thought. Displacement through gentrification and regeneration has gained prominence in critical urban geography, even as critical migration, border, and citizenship studies have simultaneously produced a robust literature on transnational displacement and internally displaced persons. In response to emerging crises of global and urban order, this article adds to a considerat…
Unpleasant’ but ‘helpful’: Immigration detention and urban entanglements in New Jersey, USA
As a reflection of changing geographies of US migration control, when Essex County, New Jersey’s local government adopted a new immigration detention contract with the federal government, an elected official noted: ‘This is a very unpleasant way of getting revenue...But it’s going to be helpful.’ Despite politically liberal leanings as well as active and expanding resistance to a persistently conservative immigration enforcement agenda from the n…
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK's Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control
Increasingly, irregularized migrants are pushed to rely on more and more clandestine means in attempts to reach so-called safe havens in Europe and elsewhere. Often, these actions are necessitated by governments instituting ever-more hostile and violent mechanisms of immigration control. Taking as its focus key developments in the UK’s morphing and expanding ‘quasi-carceral geography’ of immigration control, this paper considers some of these dev…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
Withdrawn: Making spaces for debate in the digital age
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Productive Bodies, Performative Spaces: Everyday Life in Christopher Park
Christopher Park at Sheridan Square, a small public park geographically located at the heart of the bohemian Greenwich Village neighborhood, is often presented as the nexus of New York's gay scene with the historical significance of the area for the gay rights movement in America frequently cited. In a multi-method case study of Christopher Park I draw on Henri Lefebvre's theory on the production of space and Judith Butler's theory of performativ…
A fractured mosaic: Encounters with the everyday amongst refugee and asylum seeker women
In his critique of everyday life, Henri Lefebvre called for an understanding of the everyday as a complex, fragmentary and dynamic constellation. Apprehending everyday life in this way complements the calls – from scholars of migration geography in particular – to ground meta‐narratives of globalisation and mobility within the physical locales, material objects and social and spatial practices where the daily lives of migrants actually unfold. Th…
Ties That Bind: Governmentality, the State, and Asylum in Contemporary Ireland
Coinciding with the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' boom of the 1990s, Ireland experienced a momentous shift in long-standing patterns of migration, with significant in-migration and an unprecedented change in population dynamics. Asylum seekers form a small and noteworthy group within the population in association with several recent legislative changes. In 2003 a previously granted guarantee of residency rights for so-called 'non-national' migrant par…
Waiting: Feminist perspectives on the spacings/timings of migrant (im)mobility
Waiting is a banal and ubiquitous practice that is linked in myriad ways to mobility and (im)mobility in the contemporary era. Yet, to date, experiences of waiting have received scant conceptual and/or research attention among scholars. Introducing a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture, this article highlights how a focus on temporal and spatial encounters with waiting and (im)mobility among migrants extends established areas of interest …
Why wait? Practice, politics, and percipience in Timepass
Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention
Contents: Introduction, Dominique Moran, Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill Part I Mobility: On mobilities and migrations, Alison Mountz Mobility versus liberty? The punitive uses of movement within and outside carceral environments, Nick Gill Mobility and power in detention: the management of internal movement and governmental mobility in Romania, BA(c)nA(c)dicte Michalon a You dona (TM)t even know where you area (TM): chaotic geographies of US migran…
Gagging orders: Asylum Seekers and Paradoxes of Freedom and Protest in Liberal Society
The detention of non-status migrants is now commonplace in developed countries. Detention has been justified on such grounds as security, the welfare of non-status migrant populations, and as a way to speed up processing asylum claims. Drawing from the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko's sustained interest in themes of migration and belonging, this article examines the relationships between technologies of government in detention and accommodation facili…
Examining the everyday micro-economies of migrant detention in the United States
Securitization of immigration, the rise of interior immigration policing, and forces of carceral privatization have occasioned a remarkable expansion of immigrant detention throughout the United States. Previous studies have drawn attention to the importance of the daily rates paid by the federal government to individual facilities in driving the emphasis on detention. This paper, in contrast, argues that tracing the political and economic geogra…
The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like de…
Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical perspectives
International migration has been described as one of the defining issues of the twenty-first century. While a lot is known about the complex nature of migratory flows, surprisingly little attention has been given to one of the most prominent responses by governments to human mobility: the practice of immigration detention. Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention provides a timely intervention, offering much needed scrutiny of the ideologies, …
Carceral circuitry: New directions in carceral geography
Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This article opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of ‘circuits’ to critically enquire into the carceral. Drawing inspiration from Harvey (1982; 1985), the article makes circuits do fresh work, teasing apart the e…
Beyond privatization: Bureaucratization and the spatialities of immigration detention expansion
Beyond privatization: bureaucratization and the spatialities of immigration detention expansion. Territory, Politics, Governance. Immigration detention has become central to models of immigration enforcement in the United States and globally. This paper elaborates a conceptual framework to facilitate critical understanding of detention’s proliferation that goes beyond the role of privatization as well as beyond public–private sector relationships…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
Unsettling state(s): On reading Nothing Personal? Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control
In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies, including border encampment in Thailand, deprivation in U.S. immigration detention centers, and deterrence through destitution in the United Kingdom, demonstrate that circuits of value depend on the …
Unpleasant’ but ‘helpful’: Immigration detention and urban entanglements in New Jersey, USA
As a reflection of changing geographies of US migration control, when Essex County, New Jersey’s local government adopted a new immigration detention contract with the federal government, an elected official noted: ‘This is a very unpleasant way of getting revenue...But it’s going to be helpful.’ Despite politically liberal leanings as well as active and expanding resistance to a persistently conservative immigration enforcement agenda from the n…
The Need for Inter/Subdisciplinary Thinking in Critical Conceptualizations of Displacement
Displacement occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary geographical thought. Displacement through gentrification and regeneration has gained prominence in critical urban geography, even as critical migration, border, and citizenship studies have simultaneously produced a robust literature on transnational displacement and internally displaced persons. In response to emerging crises of global and urban order, this article adds to a considerat…
Conference Organizing in the Hybrid Age: Lessons from the Fourth International Feminist Geography Conference
The 4th International Feminist Geography Conference, Pushing Boundaries, was held both virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 15–17 June 2022. The goal of the conference was to bring together feminist geographers from around the world to share their work, exchange ideas, and build professional connections toward advancing feminist scholarship. In this article, four of the conference organizers come together to share the…
The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK's Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control
Increasingly, irregularized migrants are pushed to rely on more and more clandestine means in attempts to reach so-called safe havens in Europe and elsewhere. Often, these actions are necessitated by governments instituting ever-more hostile and violent mechanisms of immigration control. Taking as its focus key developments in the UK’s morphing and expanding ‘quasi-carceral geography’ of immigration control, this paper considers some of these dev…
Withdrawn: Making spaces for debate in the digital age
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Making spaces for debate in the digital age
Withdrawal notice to 'Making spaces for debate in the digital age' [Political Geography, 117 (2025) 103266]
The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in Political Geography, 116 (2025) 103268, http://10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103268 . The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal
Climbing a paper mountain: Academic publishing at a critical juncture
Political Geography and the urgency of holding space for open and critical inquiry
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)