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a massive migration: the flow of people in and out of the city. We can ask whether
this quiet but pervasive migration crisis isn't creating a growing class of non -
citizens, concentrated in very few places in all of our major cities. The new visual -
izations reveal what was previously difficult to see—the mass disappearance and
reappearance of people in the city. They focus on the systematic phenomenon of
ex-prisoners' reentry and examine new institutions that respond to this structural
feature of urban life. What happens to these people when they come home? We
often know where they are going and what will happen. What is our responsibility
to resettle them effectively, given all that we know?
Prisonermigrationpatterns,Brooklyn,NewYork,2003.