Deirdre Conlon, PhD
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Leeds
Areas of Expertise: critical migration and border studies; U.S. immigration detention system; immigration enforcement; carceral geographies; borders and belonging.
Deirdre Conlon is Associate Professor of Geography based at the University of Leeds, UK. A CUNY Graduate Center alumnus and critical geographer working in the US and Britain, Conlon’s work focuses on how immigration and border controls are proliferating as they are monetized. She is co-author, with Nancy Hiemstra, of Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants, and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention and Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. Recent scholarship also includes articles in Geopolitics (2024) and Urban Studies (2022). Deirdre and Nancy Hiemstra’s recent work is also available at the Border Criminologies blog, Border Chronicle podcast, and news media outlets including The Financial Times and DW News.
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