The Deportation Regime in the Trump 2.0 Presidency

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The current Trump presidency in the United States came to power promising to achieve the greatest rate of deportation in the country’s history setting its sights on expelling between 15 and 20 million migrants over four years. This panel will examine the first year of arguably the most reactionary presidency in U.S. history and its efforts to reach its goal of mass migrant criminalization and banishment. Through critical criminological analyses of the security state, its deportation regime and its practices of militarized social exclusion panelists will describe the contours of this counter-revolutionary moment in U.S. history and the resistances that these policies have provoked.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 79. Critical Perspectives in Criminology

Individual Presentations

• Sanctuary Cities and Federal Enforcement: Unpacking the Dynamics of Migrant Settlement and Local Resistance - Edwin Grimsley, Baruch College

• Trump, Deportation. Resistance and the Vindictive State - David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

• Crimmigration Law and Legal Resistance in a New Era of the Deportation Regime - Sarah Tosh, Rutgers University-Camden; Lorena Avila, Villanova University

• Panic! at the Border: Anxiety, Intervention, and Violence at the Border and Its Roots in Indigenous Genocide - Nicholas Rodrigo, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Chair

• Lorena Avila, Villanova University

Discussant

• Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College

Organized by a Division or external group?

Critical criminology