SOCI 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Bracero Program, Racial Profiling, Secure Communities And Administrative Immigration Policies
Document Summary
Us deportation ballooned between 1997 and 2012 and these deportations disproportionately targeted the latino working class men. The recent deportation is described as a gendered racial removal program. It draws on surveys conducted in mexico, the us department of. Homeland security published statistics and interviews with deportees conducted by the first author in guatemala, the. Deportations have taken on a new course in the aftermath of. 9/11 and in the wake of the global economic crisis - involving a shift towards interior enforcement. Deportation has become a gendered and racial removal project of the state. Deportations will have lasting consequences with gendered an raced effects here in the us. Between 1997 and 2012, the us government carried out 4. 2 million deportations and this figure amounts to more than twice the sum total of every deportation before 1997. Nearly all of these deportations have been latino men, creating a crisis in latino families and communities.
