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Undocumented by Tings Chak5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The latter are not effectuated to punish bodies, but for administrative reasons, holding bodies to a location for them to wait - sometimes for years - to hear about whether or not they will be expelled from the national territory or not. One of these levels consits in the legal aspect of the detentions themselves. Most of them are either refused, expelled, marginalized or incarcerated. In Undocumented, she engages the architectural typology of the Canadian migrant detention centers at many levels. In her Funambulist Paper entitled “ Racialized Geographies and the Fear of Ships,” she had already exposed how the historical and contemporary treatment of migration depends on considerations for the very bodies of the migrants themselves. ![]() Tings is about to publish a graphic-essay book entitled Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention (The Architecture Observer, 2014) that articulates the two aspects of her work as an organizer and as a designer. ![]() The last podcast published on Archipelago is a conversation with Tings Chak, Toronto-based migrant justice organizer (as part of the organization No One Is Illegal for example), as well as a multidisciplinary designer. Excerpt of the forthcoming book Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak (2014) ![]()
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