30237 - Abolish ICE! Migration and Detention under Trump 2.0

Description

Armed with masks that hide their identities, ICE agents are illegally kidnapping, detaining, and deporting U.S. citizens (including Indigenous peoples of the Americas), documented and undocumented migrants, and those speaking out against authoritarian regimes. People are being brutally taken from hospitals, their places of employment, on the streets, and in their homes. Hundreds of people have disappeared after being placed in “Alligator Alcatraz,” with little to no documentation on where they were taken. We’ve also witnessed community resistances to such violences, including community gatherings during ICE raids to force ICE agents to leave and to protect community members. This session recognizes that these dynamics are not new; rather the U.S. has a long history of forced separation and deportation, children kept in cages, and the dehumanization tactics and rhetoric that seek to justify these systems of oppression and domination. We invite submissions that turn a critical eye to ICE, focus on the lived experiences of those detained, deported, and the loved ones who remain and/or community strategies of care and resistance. Submissions are invited across time (historical, contemporary), methods, and theories.

Sub Unit

• Race, Gender, and Class Section / Abolish ICE! Migration and Detention under Trump 2.0

Presider

• Assata Zerai, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque

Individual Presentations

• Legal Learning in the ICE Age: Legal Socialization and Cynicism during Heightened Immigration Enforcement - Luis E. Tenorio, Colby College

• Transnational Trauma: ACEs as Causes of Suicidality for Unaccompanied Children Reported in ORR Care - Sophie Emma Smith, Brigham Young University-Provo; Melissa Alcaraz, Brigham Young University-Provo; Jane Lilly Lopez, Brigham Young University-Provo; Hayley Pierce, Brigham Young University; Kif Augustine Adams

Session Organizer

• Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon