The immigrant other: Lived experiences in a transnational world

Furman, Rich; Lamphear, Greg; Epps, Douglas

doi:10.11157/anzswj-vol29iss1id366

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“…Knowing what happens inside detention centers repoliticizes immigration detention, while not knowing contributes to its depoliticization. By conducting empirical research about implementing staff working at such institutions, my analysis follows the line of the research that argues for global scrutiny of immigration detention centers (Furman, epps, and Lamphear 2016). I obtained access through Mary Bosworth, who has been con ducting research on immigration detention for more than 10 years.…”

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Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies

Infantino

2023

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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This article shows how the organizational activities that filter people through borders are shaped by anticipation of migrants’ agency. Through ethnographic research in the United Kingdom’s two largest immigration detention centers, I analyze implementation practices carried out by frontline workers of the Home Office. I question the underexamined relationship between time and organizational action. I find that implementation practices are systematized, in part, by assessments of the future, and are aimed at anticipating and countering detainees’ responses to the possibility of deportation, even before these responses surface. Detainees’ responses can slow the ideal progression of the bureaucratic processes of detention and expulsion, even as speeding up those processes remains a crucial concern of the Home Office organization, largely because of a political fantasy of cost-effectiveness. I argue that more knowledge about these sorts of implementation dynamics allows for reappraisals of policies that remain salient, despite their failures and costs.

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Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies

Infantino

2023

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…The administration's strict carceral response intended to send a message to deter would-be asylum seekers (Bosworth & Kaufman, 2011;Ryo, 2019b). In a sense, the MIEP and the targeted use of detention as both a containment method and a deterrent mechanism for excluding racialized Others Furman, Epps et al, 2016b) was an ad hoc pilot program for the present mass immigration detention regime.…”

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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).…”

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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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“…Immigration detention is a global phenomenon (see, e.g., Conlon & Hiemstra 2017, Flynn & Flynn 2017, Furman et al 2016, Guia et al 2016. Silverman & Massa (2012) observe that immigration detention occurs in one form or another in all liberal, democratic states.…”

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Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences

Ryo

2019

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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During the summer of 2018, the US government detained thousands of migrant parents and their separated children pursuant to its zero-tolerance policy at the United States–Mexico border. The ensuing media storm generated unprecedented public awareness about immigration detention. The recency of this public attention belies a long-standing immigration enforcement practice that has generated a growing body of research in the past couple of decades. I take stock of this research, focusing on the causes, conditions, and consequences of immigration detention in the United States. I also discuss critical tasks for future research, including ( a) examining the role of local governments, the private prison industry, and decision makers responsible for release decisions in maintaining the detention system; ( b) extending the field of inquiry to less-visible detainee populations and detention facility guards and staff, for a fuller understanding of detention conditions; and ( c) investigating not only direct but also indirect consequences of detention.

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The immigrant other: Lived experiences in a transnational world

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Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies

Shaping Borders: Migrants’ Agency, Time Commodification, and Anticipatory Detention Strategies

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

Understanding Immigration Detention: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences

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