On Deportation

by Freedom for Immigrants

#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus

Separation-themed illustration on a card made by Mohamad Ali, Mahmudah and Amal from Myanmar and Somalia, whose works sold at Art For Grabs: World Refugee Day.

The **#ImmigrationDetentionSyllabus** is a sixteen-part series of readings and tools to support education, research, and action to dissect and dismantle the U.S. immigration detention system. The syllabus is organized by theme and curated by historian [Tina Shull](https://medium.com/u/6e34ba3479d9) at [Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)](http://endisolation.org).

Part Twelve, “On Deportation,” provides readings, reports, and multimedia resources for understanding the history, experiences, and impacts of deportation, as well as deportation stories projects.

Readings

by Tanya Golash-Boza; NYU Press 2015.

- Golash-Boza, Tanya. [*Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism*](https://books.google.com/books?id=oe8WCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)*. *New York University Press, 2015; [*Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States*](https://books.google.com/books/about/Due_Process_Denied_Detentions_and_Deport.html?id=KdbFBQAAQBAJ). Routledge, 2012; “[The Immigration Industrial Complex: Why We Enforce Immigration Policies Destined to Fail](https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/902/docs/GolashBoza_2009_SocCompass.pdf).” *Sociology Compass* 3 (2009): 1–15. - Goodman, Adam. “[The Long History of Self-Deporation](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714839.2017.1331811?journalCode=rnac20),” NACLA Report on the Americas 49 (2017). - Hahamovitch, Cindy. [*No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor*](https://books.google.com/books?id=mW1olX4Yo3kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Princeton University Press, 2011. - Hernandez, Kelly Lytle, “[The Crimes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration: A Cross-Border Examination of Operation Wetback, 1943–1954](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Kelly+Lyle+Hernandez%2C+%E2%80%9CThe+Crimes+and+Consequences+of+Illegal+Immigration%3A+A+Cross-Border+Examination+of+Operation+Wetback%2C+1943-1954%2C%E2%80%9D+Western+Historical+Quarterly+%28Winter+2006%29%3A+421-444&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24),” *Western Historical Quarterly* (Winter 2006): 421–444. - Hester, Torrie, “[Protection, not Punishment”: Legislative and Judicial Formation of U.S. Deportation Policy, 1882–1904](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Protection%2C+not+Punishment%22%3A+Legislative+and+Judicial+Formation+of+U.S.+Deportation+Policy%2C+1882-1904%22+The+Journal+of+American+Ethnic+History%2C+Vol.+30%2C+No.+1+%28Fall+2010%29%3A+11-36&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24)” *The Journal of American Ethnic History, *30 (2010): 11–36. - Hing, Bill Ong.[*Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality and Immigration Policy*](https://books.google.com/books?id=dJyThTkNykwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Cambridge University Press, 2006. - Kanstroom, Daniel. [*Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=irgpGACppy0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Harvard University Press, 2007; [*Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora*](https://books.google.com/books?id=cAYDCXVlmfsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Oxford University Press, 2012. - Maginot, Kelly Birch, [“From One Police State to Another: Stories of Deportation from the United States to El Salvador](https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/05/%E2%80%98-one-police).” *Border Criminologies*, Oxford University, May 2015. - Moloney, Deirdre M.[*National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882*](https://books.google.com/books?id=GDHpGDVfQE4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). University of North Carolina Press, 2012. - Sánchez, George, “Where is Home? The Dilemma of Repatriation,” in [*Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945*](https://books.google.com/books?id=sqM31q9EulMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false). Oxford University Press, 1993. - Schrecker, Ellen, “[Immigration and Internal Security: Political deportations during the McCarthy Era](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Ellen+Schrecker%2C+%E2%80%9CImmigration+and+Internal+Security%3A+Political+deportations+during+the+McCarthy+Era%2C%E2%80%9D+Science+and+Society%2C+60%2C+no.+4+%281996%29%3A+393+-+426&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24),” *Science and Society,* 60 (1996): 393–426. - Wong, Tom K.[*Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control*](https://books.google.com/books?id=kf8QBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Stanford University Press, 2015. - Zilberg, Elena. [*Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador*](https://www.dukeupress.edu/Space-of-Detention/)*.* Duke University Press, 2011.

Alwy Fadhel, “Endurance,” coffee on paper. The Refugee Art Project.

### Reports

A Price too High: US Families Torn Apart by Deportations for Drug Offenses, Human Rights Watch, June 2015.

Forced Apart: Families Separated and Immigrants Harmed by United States Deportation Policy, Human Rights Watch, July 2007.

In the News

“When Deportation is a Death Sentence,” The New Yorker, January 2018.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence

Wessler, Seth Freed, “Days of Deportation: 60 scenes of immigration enforcement in the days of Trump,” Slate, June 2016.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence

“The Road, or Flight, from Detention to Deportation,” New York Times, February 2017.

“A Remote Town, A Closed-Off Courtroom, And a Father Facing Deportation,” NPR, 2016.

Lee, Esther, “The mass deportation of African immigrants that isn’t getting media attention,” and “The US Government Quietly Deported 200 Haitian Immigrants in November,” Think Progress, 2017 and 2016.

“Mass Deportation May Sound Unlikely, But It’s Happened Before,”* NPR, *2015.

“Immigrant America: The High Cost of Deporting Parents,” VICE, 2014.

Deportation Stories

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence

Detention and Deportation podcasts by University of Oxford

The Emotional Artwork of Children Whose Parents were Deported, Broadly, July 2017:

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Humanizing Deportation / Humanizando la Deportacion by UC Davis:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence

The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

- Grande, Reyna. [The Distance Between Us: A Memoir](https://books.google.com/books?id=bNeVkLBQ7g0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). New York: Washington Square Press, 2013. - Montoya, Maceo. [*The Deportation of Wopper Barraza*](https://www.amazon.com/Deportation-Wopper-Barraza-Novel/dp/082635436X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503182091&sr=8-1&keywords=novels+deportation). University of New Mexico Press, 2014. - Ko, Lisa. [*The Leavers*](https://www.amazon.com/Leavers-Novel-Lisa-Ko-ebook/dp/B01JKHTNCY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1503182091&sr=8-2&keywords=novels+deportation). Algonquin, 2017.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence- - - - - -

‘All They Will Call You’: A Writer Gives Woody Guthrie’s ‘Deportees’ Their Names Back, NPR, February 2017.

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917: Web Exhibit with newspapers, photographs, maps, letters, and interviews, University of Arizona Library:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/when-deportation-is-a-death-sentence