Produktbeschreibung
At the intersection of science and activism, ‘A Thousand Cuts: Architectures of Displacement’ examines the deep-rooted interconnections between illegalised migration and contemporary practices of environmental and spatial design. According to the UNHCR, the number of refugees and displaced persons worldwide stood at 117.3 million at the end of June 2025. This means that the number of people who have been forced to leave their homes has doubled in the last 10 years. The authors analyse the material regimes that have been created to keep displaced populations at bay. Using case studies from the ‘hotspots’ of global forced migration, the authors show the many ways in which people are denied their right to resettlement and relocation: through transcontinental border walls, militarised zones, a network of deportation centres, restrictive laws, digital applications, and buses that relocate unwanted population groups. The boundaries (cuts) no longer run only between the “developed” North and the Global South. Angélil and Siress also identify potential sites of resistance to the dynamics that violently maintain divisions and destroy existing socio-spatial structures. The book reveals architecture's complicity with power structures and opens up a new perspective on its possible role as a creative force that counters practices of division.
