Andrea Pitzer

Andrea Pitzer is a journalist and author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. She is on Twitter as @andreapitzer.

THE DEVOLUTION OF DETENTION

Gitmo Started as a Detention Camp for Immigrants

From the Bolshevik Revolution to 9/11, mass detention starts as a temporary measure and becomes an indefinite nightmare.

Andrea Pitzer

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How Burma Built Concentration Camps and Got Away With It

In a stumbling democracy, Rohingya Muslims became trapped in a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing that has left hundreds of thousands homeless and in detention camps.

Andrea Pitzer