Caged Histories: Violence and Resistance in Greek Immigration Detention

This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece’s immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and personal experience as an NGO practitioner, it exposes how detention has been used as a tool for border control, racial exclusion, and social punishment.

The book traces the evolution of Greece’s detention system, from its roots in the 1990s throu...