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 Five, “On Youth, Family, and LGBT Detention” provides readings, reports, and tools for understanding how immigration enforcement affects the experiences of women, children, and LGBTQI persons and for challenging family and LGBT detention.
- Cairns, Kathleen. [*Hard Time at Tehachapi: California’s First Women’s Prison*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/hard-time-at-tehachapi-californias-first-womens-prison/oclc/276138938&referer=brief_results). University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
- Canaday, Margot. [*The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America*](https://books.google.com/books?id=4Dkb6hSNDCEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false). Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Chávez-García, Miroslava. [*States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/states-of-delinquency-race-and-science-in-the-making-of-californias-juvenile-justice-system/oclc/775302612&referer=brief_results). University of California Press, 2012.
- Dreby, Joanna. [*Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families*](https://books.google.com/books?id=JD19BgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false). University of California Press, 2015.
- Golash-Boza, Tanya and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, “[Latino immigrant men and the deportation crisis: A gendered racial removal program.](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Flst.2013.14)” *Latino Studies* vol. 11: 271–92.
- Gonzales, Roberto G. [*Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America*](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520287266)*. *University of California Press, 2015.
- Haley, Sarah. [*No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/no-mercy-here-gender-punishment-and-the-making-of-jim-crow-modernity/oclc/939963318&referer=brief_results). University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
- hooks, bell, “[Racism and Feminism: The Issue of Accountability](https://hamtramckfreeschool.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/hooks-bell-aint-i-a-woman-black-woman-and-feminism.pdf),” in *Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism*.**South End Press, 1981.
- Libal, Bob, Lauren Martin, and Nicole Porter, “‘A Prison is Not a Home’: Notes from the Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Lorde, Audre, “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference,” in [*Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought*](http://www.powells.com/partner/37407/biblio/9781565842564?p_isbn). Norton, 1995.
- Loyd, Jenna, “Immigrant Justice from a Trans Perspective: An Interview with Gael Guevara, May 2009,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Queer (In)Justice from Beacon Press
- Mogul, Joey, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock, eds. [*Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/queer-injustice-the-criminalization-of-lgbt-people-in-the-united-states/oclc/630501317&referer=brief_results). Beacon Press, 2011.
- Nazario, Sonia. [Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother](https://books.google.com/books?id=pMPklnWzVLwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Random House, 2007.
- Oparah, Julie. [“Feminism and the (Trans)Gender Entrapment of Gender Nonconforming Prisoners,”](http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sp664r9#page-1)*UCLA Women’s Law Journal* 18 (2012) 239–71.
- Pallares, Amalia. [Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship](https://books.google.com/books?id=HfmqBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Rutgers University Press, 2014.
- Patler, Caitlin and Nicholas Branic, “Patterns of Family Visitation During Immigration Detention,” *RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences *3:4 (July 2017) 18–36.
- Rosas, Ana Elizabeth, [*Abrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the US- Mexico Border*](http://www.powells.com/partner/37407/biblio/9780520282674?p_isbn)*. *University of California Press, 2014.
- Schriro, Dora, “[Obstacles to Reforming Family Detention in the United States](https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/obstacles-to-reforming-family-detention-in-the-united-states-global-detention-project-working-paper-no-20).” Global Detention Project Working Paper 20, January, 2017.
- Stanley, Eric and Nat Smith, eds.[*Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/captive-genders-trans-embodiment-and-the-prison-industrial-complex/oclc/669754832&referer=brief_results). AK Press, 2011.
Whose Child Am I? by Susan J. Terri0
- Terrio, Susan J.,**[*Whose Child Am I? Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody*](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520281493)*. *University of California Press, 2015.
- Wessler, Seth Freed and Julianne Hing, “Torn Apart: Struggling to Stay Together after Deportation,” in [*Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Walls-Cages-Geographies-Transformation/dp/0820344125/ref=sr_1_1%3Fs=books%26ie=UTF8%26qid=1502923438%26sr=1-1%26keywords=beyond+cages+and+walls). University of Georgia Press, 2012.
- Zayas, Luis H. [*Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans*](https://books.google.com/books?id=GinaBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false). Oxford University Press, 2015.