Racialization and Immigration Enforcement

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This session invites submissions that center race, racialization, and immigration enforcement. In the United States, the second Trump administration has seen high profile deportations of immigrants from various ethnoracial backgrounds. Further, new groups such as Venezuelans and Haitians have become targets of racializing political rhetoric. This session will explore the intersection of race, racialization, and immigration enforcement to better understand how the current moment is re-shaping ideas of membership, 'illegality,' and the U.S. immigration regime's approach to control.

Sub Unit

• International Migration Section / Racialization and Immigration Enforcement

Presider

• Luis E. Tenorio, Colby College

Individual Presentations

• The Racialized Geographies of Deportability in the New Deportation Regime - Carolina Valdivia, University of California-Irvine

• Racial and Religious Disparities in Student Visa Rejections - Christopher Maggio, Mercy University; Meaghan L Tomasiewicz, University of Illinois Chicago

• Contesting Deportability: Racialized Enforcement and the Struggle for Black Immigrant Belonging - Fadilat Olasupo, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• From Resettlement to Removal: Anti-Black Racism in U.S. Refugee Admissions and Enforcement - Bernadette M Ludwig, Western Connecticut State University

Session Organizer

• Luis E. Tenorio, Colby College