Fall for the Book - Eithne Luibheid

Criminalizing Immigration Through Family: A Queer Migration Analysis

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 4:30 PM EDT
Research Hall, 163

“Family” remains an important target of state efforts to manage immigration in ways that reproduce a white, patriarchal, heteronormative nation and citizenry. Centering struggles by separated immigrant families at the U.S./Mexico border, and by immigrant spouses who are detained when seeking legal status through their marriages, this talk explores how the state is deliberately targeting family ties as a means to criminalize and deport more immigrants. The talk brings feminist and queer migration scholarship into critical dialogue with the scholarship on governing immigration through crime.