Border hotels: Spaces of detention and quarantine

‘Border hotels’ have come to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as spaces of detention and quarantine. Despite longer history using hotels for immigrant detention, efforts contain outbreaks led proliferation used border governance. Ad hoc quarantine facilities been set up around world acting choke points mobility. The use sites has also gained significant attention, with related restrictions impacting on access services detained refugees asylum seekers. Inhumane conditions mobilisations against these recently received substantial media coverage. This symposium initiates a discussion about ‘border hotels’, closely engaging developments. Contributors document shifting infrastructures border, explore how are experienced resisted. They draw attention divergent experiences immobility, belonging, exclusion, intersections In exploring different - controversial aspects this theorises modalities governance implemented through hotels. Following in footsteps ‘hotel geopolitics’ agenda (Fregonese Ramadan 2015) it illustrates become integrated into regimes. doing so, contributes debates material infrastructural dimensions bordering practices specifically literature carceral geographies, polymorphic politics