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... New York City–based Families for Freedom publicly supports immigrants with criminal convictions, predominantly men, to free them from detention and stop their mandatory deportation. Deportees and their loved ones lead the organization. Using storytelling (testimonios) as a core organizing tool...

...Spaces of Deportability ...

....” The curriculum helps KGA youth organizers connect their histories of displacement from Southeast Asia to the deportation of Khmer refugees, turned criminal aliens, from the United States. KGA frames the deportation of Khmer refugees as yet another chapter of genocide. The frame brings to the surface...

... This chapter frames deportation as settler carcerality. Settler power targets the intimate, proliferating gender and sexual violence. The chapter examines the expanded use of the criminal legal system to deport people from the interior of the United States. I argue that ejection through...

... Centering a citizen man (Tom Swann) trying to prevent the deportation of his undocumented husband (Guillermo Hernández), chapter 2 extends marriage migration scholarship by exploring how immigration laws mandating that marriages must be grounded in love enable attrition, detention...

... This chapter focuses on the realities created by the securitization of U.S. immigration law. Deported 1.5-generation Salvadorans have found themselves essentially exiled from the homes and families that they knew in the United States. In El Salvador, they encounter a somewhat alien country where...

... The introduction explains the book’s main argument, situates the argument in historical and political context, and explains key concepts. It first provides a brief overview of US deportation; explains how US deportation reproduces global apartheid, denial of Indigenous sovereignty...

... as an imagined intimacy among strangers and mandatory migrant deportability. The Report on Deportation , produced by undocumented and formerly undocumented migrants including queer people, comprised a queer counterproposal that refused the linear logic of a pathway toward an imagined future of citizenship...