Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory's Exclusions

Chamberlain, Jacob P.

ISBN 10: 082036990X / ISBN 13: 9780820369907

Published by Univ of Georgia Pr, 2025

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304 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory's Exclusions
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082036990X
• ISBN 13: 9780820369907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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Synopsis

Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led by undocumented workers in a complicated and perhaps unexpected location: Vermont, United States. This compelling story, which includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s use of a covert informant to infiltrate the group and deport key members of its community, provides a detailed analysis of the state of immigration enforcement in the country today, alongside an intimate portrait of successful modes of resistance against it.

Migrant Justice has gone on to improve rights for migrants in Vermont and across the country in these incredibly precarious times for migrant activists. This book places Migrant Justice’s activism within what is defined as the Age of Removal, or the last three decades in which immigration enforcement in the United States has increasingly used enhanced enforcement mechanisms like the “order of removal,” which aids in the confinement, control, and exploitation of migrants. Migrant Justice’s work also fits within a growing landscape of migrant rights movements that have arisen during this time, and Jacob P. Chamberlain provides a crucial snapshot of its work to better understand its successful forms of organizing in these contexts. In this confluence of opposing forces, we see egregious abuses against migrant actors, but we also see new and progressively powerful forms of resistance that are posing a specific challenge to bordered and territorially based limitations on rights and democracy. Migrant Justice’s work expands rights access to people, regardless of citizenship, which essentially works toward a deterritorialization of rights access―or the opening of sociopolitical belonging to new actors.

About the Author

JACOB P. CHAMBERLAIN is a critical human geographer. He received his PhD in Geography from the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. He also holds an MA in Postcolonial Culture and Global Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Southern Maine. His work builds on critical theories within geography, migration studies, legal studies, citizenship studies, and political theory. He lives in Winooski, Vermont.