NPR on a post-Katrina trailer park: "according to a recent study of 92 different Katrina FEMA parks published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, suicide attempts in Louisiana and Mississippi's parks are 79 times higher than the national average." (from NPR, by way of Husunzi)
New York Times on workers' camps outside Dubai (via Amitava Kumar).
Subtopia on inflatable tent camps and the detention market.
If Carceraglio's books weren't all packed away, maybe there'd be some more thought in this post, or anyway some citations. Not least, from Antoine Volodine's novel Dondog.