Monisha Das Gupta is Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is the author of
The conclusion highlights four themes that characterize migration justice. First, migrant-led and Indigenous politics have a common object of analysis: US carceral countersovereignty. The grounds for coalition emerge from bringing crimmigration-sensitive antideportation activism into conversation with Indigenous decolonial projects centered on self-determining relationships to land. Second, antideportation activism provides points of entry into the gender and sexual politics of settler carcerality, deportability, and the movement for migration justice. Third, the activists’ feminist and queer analysis and action model a world without policing and cages within radical spaces. Fourth, the power of storytelling binds those who tell them in relations of care, supporting them to take collective action to transform settler carceral arrangements.
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