They Are Just Deportees

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They Are Just Deportees is an innovative new podcast from the Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime at John Jay College. Over the course of this podcast series Darializa Avila Chevalier and Nick Rodrigo will be interviewing scholars, journalists and activists researching, reporting on and resisting the structural violence of the US immigration enforcement system.

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Episode Seven: The "War on Terror" and expansion of the security state

Guest: Ramzi Kassem Ramzi Kassem is Professor of Law at the City University of New York where he is the founding director of the CLEAR project and the co-director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic. He joins us to discuss the impact that the so-called war on terror has had on Muslim and other criminalized groups in the United States, expounding upon the expansion of the security state into migrant and other communities of color and on both the potentialities and, importantly, the l...

Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode Six: DACA and the Student Struggle Against Deportation

Guest: Professor Shirley Leyro What does belonging mean to undocumented students in CUNY? How does the threat of deportation impact the emotional well-being of those students dreaming for a better life through higher education? Professor Shirley Leyro discusses her “CUNY belonging” project and the responsibility of CUNY Professors to these young people.

Nov 25, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode Five: Domestic Violence and La Migra

Guest: Professor Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez & Professor Jayne Mooney Professor Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez and Professor Jayne Mooney on the issues facing immigrant women who have survived domestic violence, and the way in which intersectionality and reflexive ethnographic techniques can build connections of solidarity through research.

Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 10 min

Episode Four: Criminal Deportation and the Structural Violence of Immigration Court

Guest: Professor Sarah Tosh “Crimmigration” is a sociolegal concept that refers to the increasing amalgamation of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Professor Sarah Tosh discusses how this has resulted in a deportation pipeline in the US, streamlining immigrants into removals by way of spurious means.

Nov 25, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode Three: Detain and Deport

Guest: Professor Nancy Hiemstra A carceral logic has gripped the US states approach to poverty and criminality since the neoliberal turn in the 1980s. Professor Nancy Hiemstra examines how this has extended to immigration enforcement in ways that reinforces racial and market fundamentalist logic in turn leading to an explosion of migrant detention centers.

Nov 25, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode Two: Empire of Borders

Guest: Todd Miller Before a migrant reaches US soil they must contend with the hard US border. Award winning journalist Todd Miller discusses the extension of the US border into the global south, and the increasing securitization and militarization of the US bordering practices since 9/11.

Nov 25, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode One: The Genealogy of the Deportation Regime

Guest: Professor David Brotherton What is the deportation regime? In our first episode, we will discuss with Professor David Brotherton the history of forced removal in the United States, and the reaction of academia to this phenomenon.

Nov 25, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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They are just Deportees is an innovative new podcast from the Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime at John Jay College. Over the course of this podcast series Darializa Avila Chevalier and Nick Rodrigo will be interviewing scholars, journalists and activists researching, reporting on and resisting the structural violence of the US immigration enforcement system.

Nov 25, 2019•3 min

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