Enforcing the Border: Criminalization, Fear and Detention in the Age of Punishment

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The recent increasingly punitive immigration policies have resulted in the detention and deportation of an unrepresented number of immigrants. This thematic panel will address the consequences of these policies, including the expansion of a legal category that has been responsible for the leading cause of deportations from the U.S., the crippling effects of the fear of deportation on the lives of immigrants, an examination of the conditions of immigrant confinement as a reflection of culture of vindictiveness within the U.S. in the neoliberal era, and a look into the world of those who are leading the movements against immigrant detention.

Sub Unit

• Area III: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / 2: Conflict, Oppression, Injustice, and Inequality

Individual Presentations

• Detention Stories and the Criminology of Vindictiveness - David Brotherton, The Graduate Center, CUNY

• Resisting Immigration Detention: Dynamics of Social Change - Jane Guskin, The City University of New York

• The Creation of the Aggravated Felony Legal Category and the Punitive Turn in American Drug, Crime, and Immigration Policy - Sarah Tosh, City University of New York

• The Fear Factor: The Impact of Deportation as Legal Violence on the Lives of Immigrants - Shirley Leyro, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Chair

• David Brotherton, The Graduate Center, CUNY