Carceral Migrations: Reframing Race, Space, and Punishment

Kurwa, Rahim; Gurusami, Susila

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“…The violence can be tracked to immigration law's harshly asymmetrical power dynamic, which diminishes the human dignity of noncitizens… Much of the structural violence that diminishes the quality of life for the subset of noncitizens with prior crimes is concealed by assertions of legitimacy and due process. (p. 2) Human captivity remains a brutally effective means to impose carceral control upon racialized groups in the United States and abroad (Furman, Epps et al, 2016a), especially in the ostensibly race-neutral legal environment of the post-civil rights era (Hinton, 2016;Kurwa & Gurusami, 2022).…”

Section: Immigration Detention As State Violencementioning

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Mitigating the Violence of Mass Immigration Detention Through Community-Based Case Management

Epps,

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2024

ASW

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Immigration detention causes psychological, physiological, and financial harm, primarily to noncitizens of color. Following a mass release of “lower-priority" individuals, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic provide an opportunity to envision a system more focused on freedom and pragmatism rather than retributive and ineffective notions of human warehousing and deterrence. Utilizing community-based case management (CBCM), a majority of detained noncitizens could be immediately returned to their families and communities under agency discretion. While some alternatives to incarceration serve as extensions of the carceral state, CBCM maintains required court appearances and preserves occupational and familial obligations at a fraction of detention costs without the need for intensive surveillance or restrictions. Drawing upon available research, theories of violence, and strengths-based case management, this article critically examines the emergence of mass immigration detention in the United States and considers a noncarceral approach to mitigate such state violence against detained noncitizens, as well as their families and communities. The profession of social work is uniquely positioned to implement CBCM to address the mass detention crisis and the grand challenge of smart decarceration. Social workers are well-equipped to 1) advocate for sensible decarceration policy, 2) conduct action-oriented scholarly research on the impacts of detention and outcomes of CBCM, and 3) provide integrated case management for noncitizens in immigration removal proceedings.

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Section: Immigration Detention As State Violencementioning

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Mitigating the Violence of Mass Immigration Detention Through Community-Based Case Management

Epps,

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2024

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“…[and] four thousand regulations [that] shape civic participation,” which render those classified as formerly incarcerated ineligible for most resources, with lasting effects on their life chances (Miller 2022:167). As the immigration system uses the same punitive logics of the carceral system (Hester 2015; Kurwa and Gurusami 2022), 9 Latino and Latina immigrants experience the same damaging consequences as those ensnared by the prison system (Bosworth, Parmar, and Vázquez 2018; Lopez and Castañeda 2022; Patler and Branic 2017; Ryo 2019). 10 In our research on the post-detention lives of Central American women asylum-seekers (Menjívar and Gómez Cervantes n.d.), we find that the bonds and Alternatives to Detention programs into which the women are placed keep them and their families system-embedded and indebted (see also Haney 2022; Harris 2016; Harris, Pattillo, and Sykes 2022).…”

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State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins

Menjívar

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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In this presidential address, I argue for the importance of state-created categories and classification systems that determine eligibility for tangible and intangible resources. Through classification systems based on rules and regulations that reflect powerful interests and ideologies, bureaucracies maintain entrenched inequality systems that include, exclude, and neglect. I propose adopting a critical perspective when using formalized categories in our work, which would acknowledge the constructed nature of those categories, their naturalization through everyday practices, and their misalignments with lived experiences. This lens can reveal the systemic structures that engender both enduring patterns of inequality and state classification systems, and reframe questions about the people the state sorts into the categories we use. I end with a brief discussion of the benefits that can accrue from expanding our theoretical repertoires by including knowledge produced in the Global South.

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“…Halfway Home accordingly joins a critical body of scholarship connecting racial chattel slavery to contemporary experiences of carceral punishment (e.g. Shange, 2019;Rodríguez, 2021;Ben-Moshe, 2020;Davis et al, 2022;Kurwa and Gurusami, 2022).…”

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“…Ritchie, 2017;Gurusami and Kurwa, 2021). The domestic of domestic warfare is also an attack on domestic life as a reproduction of family and filial intimacies (James, 2007;Kurwa and Gurusami, 2022). Carceral projects of domestic warfare latch onto the womb as the parasitic growth of white supremacy-a manifestation of what Joy James calls "the fear of fertile blackness" that makes Captive Maternals possible (James, 2015: 188).…”

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Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Gurusami¹

2022

Punishment & Society

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Whether you are in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, or in any place shaped by Black lifewhich is to say everywhere-you will find what Reuben J. Miller (2021: 74) characterizes in Halfway Home as "the afterlife of slavery, which is to say it is the afterlife of mass incarceration." This thread-the afterlife of slavery as the afterlife of mass incarceration -invokes and evokes the work of Black feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman's (2007)

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Carceral Migrations: Reframing Race, Space, and Punishment

Cited by 8 publications

References 45 publications

Mitigating the Violence of Mass Immigration Detention Through Community-Based Case Management

Mitigating the Violence of Mass Immigration Detention Through Community-Based Case Management

State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins

Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

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