ETH STD 21AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Immigration Law, Bracero Program, Neoliberalism
20 Apr 2016
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Week 12 border of madness and spatializing justice. An undocumented individual must be cognitively liberated when they are aware of certain social conditions as damaging. Rather than become numb to these conditions, they should collectively organizing against such constraints. Half of u. s. border now patrolled only by drones . Since 2000, border patrol agents have doubled and fencing has increased by. Since 2013, 1000 drone flights, have covered 900 miles. Value of life: immigration law, ineligible for personhood and. Immigration law: law is dependent upon the stability of certain group"s criminalization: groups permanently criminalized are referred to as. Ineligible for personhood whereby such populations are subject to law but lack the legal means to contest those laws. It"s the state of legally being recognized as right-less. Convergence of many forces in our society- objectification of women, sexism from patriarchy, economic hierarchy, struggle for resources. Violence, extreme poverty, family reunification, crime/gang threats, no trust in government.
