Deportability, gender and legal violence: a literature review on deportation and anti-trafficking policies
Keywords:
control migratorio, deportabilidad, género, violencia legal, Estados Unidos, Europa, América del SurAbstract
Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, nº 133, p. 17-39
Quadrimestral (January-April 2023)
ISSN:1133-6595 | E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2023.133.1.17
Reception date: 27.09.22 ; Acceptance date: 20.02.23
This paper is based on an understanding of the global immigration control regime as one of legal violence. It analyses the specialist literature that reveals the existence of an economy of deportability, understood as the unequal distribution of the forms of state power in the lives and freedoms of non-nationals, with gender playing a preponderant role. Taking a gender perspective, a selection of texts from the past two decades are reviewed that analyse the deportation and anti-trafficking apparatus in Europe, the United States and South America. The literature corroborates the existence of a gendered economy of deportability that generates social suffering that, in different ways and to differing degrees, shapes the (im)migrant presence in the national order.
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