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Abolish ICE! Migration and Detention under Trump 2.0

Sun, August 9, 8:00 to 9:30am, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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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.

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