Don't Deport Our Daddies

Gendering State Deportation Practices and Immigrant Organizing

Bibliographic Data

ID2367652
AuthorsMonisha Das Gupta (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume28
Issue1
Pages83-109
Publication date2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891243213508840
OpenAlexW2101175512
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited33

New York based Families For Freedom (FFF) is among a handful of organizations that directly organize deportees and their families. Analyzing the organization's resignification of criminalized men of color as caregivers, I argue that current deportation policies and practices reorganize care work and kinship while tying gender and sexuality to national belonging. These policies and practices severely compromise the ability of migrant communities to socially reproduce themselves. Furthermore, the convergence of criminalization and immigration enforcement renders the kinship ties of deportable men illegible, and justifies their separation from their loved ones. Since FFF publicly supports men with criminal convictions, it reveals that its members become targets of deportation precisely because they do not and cannot conform to heteronormative prescriptions

Compromise · Criminalization · Criminology · Deportation · Enforcement · Family reunification · Human sexuality · Immigration · Kinship · Political science · Sociology · Tying · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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