The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses

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Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with “green cards,” have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel—a life-time banishment from what is, in many cases, the only country they have ever known. U.S.-based families and communities face the loss of a worker, neighbor, spouse, parent, or child. Many of the deported are “sentenced home” to a country which they only knew as an infant, whose language they do not speak, or where a family lives in extreme poverty or indebtedness for not yet being able to pay the costs of their previous migration. But what does this actually look like and what are the systems and processes and who are the people who are enforcing deportation policies and practices? The New Deportations Delirium responds to these questions. Taken as a whole, the volume raises consciousness about the complexities of the issues and argues for the interdisciplinary dialogue and response. Over the course of the book, deportation policy is debated by lawyers, judges, social workers, researchers, and clinical and community psychologists as well as educators, researchers, and community activists. The New Deportations Delirium presents a fresh conversation and urges a holistic response to the complex realities facing not only migrants but also the wider U.S. society in which they have sought a better life. Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law and Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. He is the founder of the Immigration and Asylum Clinic and co-founder of the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project. He is the author of Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora and Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History. M. Brinton Lykes is Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology and Associate Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. She is a widely published activist scholar and has received numerous honors including most recently the American Psychological Association’s Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender (2014), the International Humanitarian Award (2013) and the Ignacio Martín-Baró Lifetime Peace Practitioner Award (2012). Cover......Page 2 Title Page......Page 5 Copyright Page......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Foreword: Mayan Migrants Speak Out......Page 12 Introduction: Migration, Detention, and Deportation: Dilemmas and Responses......Page 29 Part I: The Legal, Administrative, and Political Responses......Page 59 1. Unhappy Families: The Failings of Immigration Law for Families That Are Not All Alike......Page 60 2. Improving Conditions of Confinement for Immigrant Detainees: Guideposts Toward a Civil System of Civil Detention......Page 83 3. You Be the Judge: Who Should Preside Over Immigration Cases, Where, and How?......Page 113 4. Immigration Reform: Will New Political Calculations and New Actors Overcome Enforcement Inertia?......Page 136 Part II. Interdisciplinary Research, Advocacy, and Actions for and with Migrants Affected by Detention and Deportation......Page 168 5. Legal and Social Work Responses to the Detained and Deported: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Actions......Page 169 6. Immigrants Facing Detention and Deportation: Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues, Assessment, and Intervention for Individuals and Families......Page 189 7. Participatory Action Research with Transnational and Mixed-Status Families: Understanding and Responding to Post–9/11 Threats in Guatemala and the United States......Page 215 8. Unwelcome Returns: The Alienation of the New American Diaspora in Salvadoran Society......Page 248 About the Editors......Page 271 About the Contributors......Page 273 Index......Page 278