Erin Routon | Family Detention and Legal Care

Erin Routon received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2020. She also holds an MA in Religious Studies from the University of California, Riverside and a BA in English from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her research focuses on migration, incarceration, activism, and care, and she currently works as a preceptor with Harvard University’s Writing Program.

Further Reading:

Dow, Mark. American Gulag: Inside U. S. Immigration Prisons. Oakland: University of California Press, 2005. 

Loyd, Jenna and Alison Mountz. Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. 

Loyd, Jenna M., Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge. Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Athens: U of Georgia, 2012.

Routon, Erin. “Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention”. Cultural Anthropology 36 (2):312–339, 2021. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca36.2.06.

Schrag, Philip G. Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.