Lauren Martin

Dr Lauren Martin

Political Economy Fellow 2020

Economies of Exclusion: Money, Labour and Value in Immigration and Asylum Politics

The proposed research theorises how migrants are made valuable to others through new economies of migration control. I draw from broader geographical debates about value, lively commodities, and bioeconomies to think through the economics of securitised migration control.

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Research outcomes

Martin, L.L. (2024).

Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate. Antipode, 56: 558-580.

Martin, L. L., & Tazzioli, M. (2023).

Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(2), 191-209.

Martin, L. L. (2021).

Carceral economies of migration control. Progress in Human Geography, 45(4), 740-757.

Coddington, K., Conlon, D., & Martin, L. L. (2020).

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(5), 1425–1444.

Areas of interest

Geography Carcerality Incarceration Migration Immigration Political Geography Political Economy

Cohort

PEF3

Biography

Dr Lauren Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Durham University. Her research has analysed the carceral geographies of migration control and border enforcement, particularly the ways in which families both challenge detention and become detainable. She has recently published a book chapters in Secrecy and Methods (Routledge) andHandbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Edward Elgar), a forum for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and articles in Political Geography; Territory, Politics, Governance; Geopolitics; Annales de Geographie and other journals.

Biographical details correct as of 13.03.26