Policing in Era Deten/Deport

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

Policing in An Era of Mass Detention and Deportation.Over 11 million migrants are left out of any form of immigration protection, while another 17 million people live in a household with at least one family member who is unauthorized. Under current immigration law, anyone without authorization to be in the United States is subject to detention and deportation. Surfacing unauthorized individuals requires racialized surveillance and policing that is part of and fortifies a broader carcerality that is not exclusive to immigration enforcement. The expansive immigration carceral state transpires alongside racial profiling, brutal policing, and mass incarceration of Black individuals. This is most clear when police, ICE, and Border Patrol work together in a range of policing activities: from routine traffic stops to immigration enforcement raids. Through a framework of the criminalization of immigrants, this course explores these critical linkages between racialized and brutal policing, the rise of mass incarceration and Black disenfranchisement, and immigrant detention and deportation. A key theme in the course will be refusal, resistance, and resilience. In addition to scholarly materials, we also will read manifestos and other rebellious documents produced by members of targeted communities.