Alison Mountz

Alison Mountz is Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. She authored Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (Minnesota, 2010) and two forthcoming books: The Enforcement Archipelago: Hidden Geographies and the Death of Asylum and Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Non-Citizen Detention in the United States (with Jenna Loyd).