Lori Latrice Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 280682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Latrice Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori Latrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2251-7652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 503 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Humanitarian frontiering
Since 2014, humanitarian cash, vouchers, and digital transfers have grown from scattered pilot projects to a peak of 24% of all humanitarian aid distributed globally in 2022. Cash assistance programs require different and distinct relationships between aid and wider political economies than direct food aid: the removal of parallel markets for humanitarian food aid, imbrication of displaced people in local markets, negotiations and participation o…
From Impact to Abolition
If I can summarise, the fascists are winning: whither migration studies? Melanie Griffiths' plenary lecture reminds us that being a researcher in the field of migration, asylum, borders and carceral geographies carries specific responsibilities and ethical commitments. Her talk crystallises two areas that the research and intellectual community of migration, border and refugee studies needs to grapple with: first, our relationship to policy-makin…
Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the largest detention system in the world, holding over 35,000 people in October 2023. The vast majority of this capacity is outsourced to corrections firms, particularly the two largest, CoreCivic and GEO Group. This article analyses how private corrections firms finance US immigrant detention capacity as a specialised asset class of government real estate. To understand the emergence of “carce…
Value extraction through refugee carcerality
In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programmes and financialised asylum housing as key sites through which value is extracted from asylum-seekers' unpaid and reproductive activities. We argue that specific forms of migrant carcerality are, firs…
Mental Health and Protective Factors for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths Who Trade Sex
Objectives. To describe the prevalence of sex trading by gender and by associations with mental health concerns and protective factors. Methods. We used data from 9th and 11th graders who completed the 2019 Minnesota Student Survey. The analytic sample (n = 67 806) included transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youths and cisgender youths who reported trading sex. Data on 7 mental health measures and 4 school-related and health care–related protec…
The Real Cost to Remain Competitive
College sports is a multi-billion-dollar business, and universities are looking for ways to remain competitive, including recruiting and retaining athletes from historically underrepresented groups to predominantly white institutions (PWI), many of which have a documented history of excluding non-white students, including blacks, indigenous peoples, and other people of color (often referred to as BIPOC). This article will examine the legacy of th…
Cutting School
Carceral economies of migration control
This article conceptualizes carceral economies of migration control. First, I argue that ‘privatization’ signals a reorganization of authority, rather than a relocation of ownership from public to private domains. Second, I argue for greater attention to the socio-technical practices of valuation specific to migration control through which commodification becomes possible. Third, this reorganization of authority has produced (1) status value, a f…
Destitution Economies
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 …
Making labour mobile
Afterword
The articles collected here show how the terms transnational, everyday lives and citizenship inflect each other in different ways, depending on the site and context in question. In this afterword, we want to explore how these three terms change each other and the implications of 'transnational lived citizenship '. The articles mark out important theoretical arguments for conceptualizing the spatialities of transnational identity, migrant life and…
Security
This chapter provides an overview of recent political geographical research on security, a term widely – and often vaguely – applied to matters of state, livelihoods, environment, economy, and social stability. It begins by reviewing four dominant approaches to security and securitization: constructivist theories of securitization as speech acts; performative theories of securitization as citation, circulation, and reiteration; theories of securi…
The Witch, the Household and the Community
Towards a post-mathematical topology
This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology both overstretch topology’s conceptual merit and limit its insights for spatial thinking. We show how topology, with its structuralist and modernist baggage, requires some theoretical reworking to be pu…
Ethnographies of closed doors
In this article, we discuss our experience conducting ethnographic and archival research on illiberal processes within nominally liberal states – in this case, the USA . We focus on two different institutional practices based on our respective fieldwork: (1) counterinsurgency training of civilian and military personnel in Indiana for deployment in southern A fghanistan and (2) immigration enforcement, particularly immigrant family detention. Buil…
Familial Relations
There is no abstract for this paper
Governing through the Family
This paper offers a conceptual framework in which 'the family' is situated as an object of governmental intervention, on the one hand, and a site of discursive proliferation, on the other hand. Reading across the works of Michel Foucault and Jacques Donzelot, I argue that the family served an important, but often overlooked, role in Foucauldian conceptualizations of sovereign, disciplinary, and biopolitical modalities of power. In particular, the…
Dialectics of Disassembly
This paper examines 'protocols'-instructions that inform project recipients about how technology is to be used. Our case study of 'heifer-care' protocols associated with a microdairy scheme raises two questions. First, we ask how these protocols effect a disassembly of social relations within the village-'poisoning' them, as coop members put it. Second, we raise the question of persistence: namely, how were village participants in the microdairy …
Catch and Remove
Critical security scholars have argued that biometric identity technologies, databanking, digital surveillance, and risk analysis reveal not a blockaded boundary but a border that follows transboundary migrants as they move within and between national territories. Managed through risk-based technologies, this networked, contingent border respatialises inclusion and exclusion, forming a border that is potentially everywhere and nowhere in particul…
The geopolitics of vulnerability
In May 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began detaining noncitizen families at the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a former medium-security prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America. In April 2007, a group of lawyers sued DHS, arguing that Hutto's conditions violated children's rights. This article first situates family detention in relation to two relatively separate literatures – immigration geopoliti…
Bombs, bodies, and biopolitics
The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) broadcasts the following warning in airports around the country: 'Making jokes or statements regarding bombs and/or threats during the screening process may be grounds for both civil and criminal penalties and could cause you to miss your flight.' Despite the warning, people continue to be arrested for making jokes about bombs, anthrax, and security policy. This paper examines the per…
Black asset ownership
A Formula for Disaster
This paper focuses on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to theorise the spatialities of post-9/11 security knowledge and practice in the US. It analyses the organisational discourses that animate homeland security work, such as preparedness, vulnerability, the new threat environment, risk analysis and capabilities-based planning, and considers the implications of these practices for contemporary geographies of security. It is arg…
Everywhere and Nowhere
Witchcraft and Family
Towards a post-mathematical topology
This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology both overstretch topology’s conceptual merit and limit its insights for spatial thinking. We show how topology, with its structuralist and modernist baggage, requires some theoretical reworking to be pu…
Everywhere and Nowhere
Destitution Economies
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 …
Ethnographies of closed doors
In this article, we discuss our experience conducting ethnographic and archival research on illiberal processes within nominally liberal states – in this case, the USA . We focus on two different institutional practices based on our respective fieldwork: (1) counterinsurgency training of civilian and military personnel in Indiana for deployment in southern A fghanistan and (2) immigration enforcement, particularly immigrant family detention. Buil…
Carceral economies of migration control
This article conceptualizes carceral economies of migration control. First, I argue that ‘privatization’ signals a reorganization of authority, rather than a relocation of ownership from public to private domains. Second, I argue for greater attention to the socio-technical practices of valuation specific to migration control through which commodification becomes possible. Third, this reorganization of authority has produced (1) status value, a f…
Bombs, bodies, and biopolitics
The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) broadcasts the following warning in airports around the country: 'Making jokes or statements regarding bombs and/or threats during the screening process may be grounds for both civil and criminal penalties and could cause you to miss your flight.' Despite the warning, people continue to be arrested for making jokes about bombs, anthrax, and security policy. This paper examines the per…
Catch and Remove
Critical security scholars have argued that biometric identity technologies, databanking, digital surveillance, and risk analysis reveal not a blockaded boundary but a border that follows transboundary migrants as they move within and between national territories. Managed through risk-based technologies, this networked, contingent border respatialises inclusion and exclusion, forming a border that is potentially everywhere and nowhere in particul…
Value extraction through refugee carcerality
In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programmes and financialised asylum housing as key sites through which value is extracted from asylum-seekers' unpaid and reproductive activities. We argue that specific forms of migrant carcerality are, firs…
Certified organic agriculture in Mexico
Familial Relations
There is no abstract for this paper
The geopolitics of vulnerability
In May 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began detaining noncitizen families at the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a former medium-security prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America. In April 2007, a group of lawyers sued DHS, arguing that Hutto's conditions violated children's rights. This article first situates family detention in relation to two relatively separate literatures – immigration geopoliti…
Governing through the Family
This paper offers a conceptual framework in which 'the family' is situated as an object of governmental intervention, on the one hand, and a site of discursive proliferation, on the other hand. Reading across the works of Michel Foucault and Jacques Donzelot, I argue that the family served an important, but often overlooked, role in Foucauldian conceptualizations of sovereign, disciplinary, and biopolitical modalities of power. In particular, the…
Cutting School
A Formula for Disaster
This paper focuses on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to theorise the spatialities of post-9/11 security knowledge and practice in the US. It analyses the organisational discourses that animate homeland security work, such as preparedness, vulnerability, the new threat environment, risk analysis and capabilities-based planning, and considers the implications of these practices for contemporary geographies of security. It is arg…
Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the largest detention system in the world, holding over 35,000 people in October 2023. The vast majority of this capacity is outsourced to corrections firms, particularly the two largest, CoreCivic and GEO Group. This article analyses how private corrections firms finance US immigrant detention capacity as a specialised asset class of government real estate. To understand the emergence of “carce…
Black asset ownership
Making labour mobile
Afterword
The articles collected here show how the terms transnational, everyday lives and citizenship inflect each other in different ways, depending on the site and context in question. In this afterword, we want to explore how these three terms change each other and the implications of 'transnational lived citizenship '. The articles mark out important theoretical arguments for conceptualizing the spatialities of transnational identity, migrant life and…
Mental Health and Protective Factors for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths Who Trade Sex
Objectives. To describe the prevalence of sex trading by gender and by associations with mental health concerns and protective factors. Methods. We used data from 9th and 11th graders who completed the 2019 Minnesota Student Survey. The analytic sample (n = 67 806) included transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youths and cisgender youths who reported trading sex. Data on 7 mental health measures and 4 school-related and health care–related protec…
Dialectics of Disassembly
This paper examines 'protocols'-instructions that inform project recipients about how technology is to be used. Our case study of 'heifer-care' protocols associated with a microdairy scheme raises two questions. First, we ask how these protocols effect a disassembly of social relations within the village-'poisoning' them, as coop members put it. Second, we raise the question of persistence: namely, how were village participants in the microdairy …
Witchcraft and Family
Certified organic agriculture in Mexico
Witchcraft and Family
A Formula for Disaster
This paper focuses on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to theorise the spatialities of post-9/11 security knowledge and practice in the US. It analyses the organisational discourses that animate homeland security work, such as preparedness, vulnerability, the new threat environment, risk analysis and capabilities-based planning, and considers the implications of these practices for contemporary geographies of security. It is arg…
Everywhere and Nowhere
Black asset ownership
Bombs, bodies, and biopolitics
The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) broadcasts the following warning in airports around the country: 'Making jokes or statements regarding bombs and/or threats during the screening process may be grounds for both civil and criminal penalties and could cause you to miss your flight.' Despite the warning, people continue to be arrested for making jokes about bombs, anthrax, and security policy. This paper examines the per…
The geopolitics of vulnerability
In May 2006, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began detaining noncitizen families at the T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility, a former medium-security prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America. In April 2007, a group of lawyers sued DHS, arguing that Hutto's conditions violated children's rights. This article first situates family detention in relation to two relatively separate literatures – immigration geopoliti…
Familial Relations
There is no abstract for this paper
Governing through the Family
This paper offers a conceptual framework in which 'the family' is situated as an object of governmental intervention, on the one hand, and a site of discursive proliferation, on the other hand. Reading across the works of Michel Foucault and Jacques Donzelot, I argue that the family served an important, but often overlooked, role in Foucauldian conceptualizations of sovereign, disciplinary, and biopolitical modalities of power. In particular, the…
Dialectics of Disassembly
This paper examines 'protocols'-instructions that inform project recipients about how technology is to be used. Our case study of 'heifer-care' protocols associated with a microdairy scheme raises two questions. First, we ask how these protocols effect a disassembly of social relations within the village-'poisoning' them, as coop members put it. Second, we raise the question of persistence: namely, how were village participants in the microdairy …
Catch and Remove
Critical security scholars have argued that biometric identity technologies, databanking, digital surveillance, and risk analysis reveal not a blockaded boundary but a border that follows transboundary migrants as they move within and between national territories. Managed through risk-based technologies, this networked, contingent border respatialises inclusion and exclusion, forming a border that is potentially everywhere and nowhere in particul…
The Witch, the Household and the Community
Towards a post-mathematical topology
This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology both overstretch topology’s conceptual merit and limit its insights for spatial thinking. We show how topology, with its structuralist and modernist baggage, requires some theoretical reworking to be pu…
Ethnographies of closed doors
In this article, we discuss our experience conducting ethnographic and archival research on illiberal processes within nominally liberal states – in this case, the USA . We focus on two different institutional practices based on our respective fieldwork: (1) counterinsurgency training of civilian and military personnel in Indiana for deployment in southern A fghanistan and (2) immigration enforcement, particularly immigrant family detention. Buil…
Security
This chapter provides an overview of recent political geographical research on security, a term widely – and often vaguely – applied to matters of state, livelihoods, environment, economy, and social stability. It begins by reviewing four dominant approaches to security and securitization: constructivist theories of securitization as speech acts; performative theories of securitization as citation, circulation, and reiteration; theories of securi…
Afterword
The articles collected here show how the terms transnational, everyday lives and citizenship inflect each other in different ways, depending on the site and context in question. In this afterword, we want to explore how these three terms change each other and the implications of 'transnational lived citizenship '. The articles mark out important theoretical arguments for conceptualizing the spatialities of transnational identity, migrant life and…
Making labour mobile
Carceral economies of migration control
This article conceptualizes carceral economies of migration control. First, I argue that ‘privatization’ signals a reorganization of authority, rather than a relocation of ownership from public to private domains. Second, I argue for greater attention to the socio-technical practices of valuation specific to migration control through which commodification becomes possible. Third, this reorganization of authority has produced (1) status value, a f…
Destitution Economies
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 …
Cutting School
Mental Health and Protective Factors for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youths Who Trade Sex
Objectives. To describe the prevalence of sex trading by gender and by associations with mental health concerns and protective factors. Methods. We used data from 9th and 11th graders who completed the 2019 Minnesota Student Survey. The analytic sample (n = 67 806) included transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youths and cisgender youths who reported trading sex. Data on 7 mental health measures and 4 school-related and health care–related protec…
The Real Cost to Remain Competitive
College sports is a multi-billion-dollar business, and universities are looking for ways to remain competitive, including recruiting and retaining athletes from historically underrepresented groups to predominantly white institutions (PWI), many of which have a documented history of excluding non-white students, including blacks, indigenous peoples, and other people of color (often referred to as BIPOC). This article will examine the legacy of th…
Value extraction through refugee carcerality
In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programmes and financialised asylum housing as key sites through which value is extracted from asylum-seekers' unpaid and reproductive activities. We argue that specific forms of migrant carcerality are, firs…
Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the largest detention system in the world, holding over 35,000 people in October 2023. The vast majority of this capacity is outsourced to corrections firms, particularly the two largest, CoreCivic and GEO Group. This article analyses how private corrections firms finance US immigrant detention capacity as a specialised asset class of government real estate. To understand the emergence of “carce…
Humanitarian frontiering
Since 2014, humanitarian cash, vouchers, and digital transfers have grown from scattered pilot projects to a peak of 24% of all humanitarian aid distributed globally in 2022. Cash assistance programs require different and distinct relationships between aid and wider political economies than direct food aid: the removal of parallel markets for humanitarian food aid, imbrication of displaced people in local markets, negotiations and participation o…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works)