Migrant justice in the age of removal : rights, law, and resistance against territory's exclusions / Jacob P. Chamberlain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamberlain, Jacob P., author.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Noncitizens--Civil rights--United States.

Noncitizens.

Freedom of movement--United States.

Freedom of movement.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory's Exclusions details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led by undocumented workers in a complicated and perhaps unexpected context and site: Vermont, U.S. Migrant Justice's 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 their 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 shape and improve the state of rights for migrants in Vermont and, as this book argues, across the country in these incredibly precarious times for migrant activists. This work 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 U.S. has increasingly utilized enhanced enforcement mechanisms like the "order of removal," which aids in the confinement, control, and exploitation of migrants. However, Migrant Justice's work fits within a growing landscape of migrant rights movements that have arisen during this time, and this book provides a crucial snapshot of their work to better understand their successful and powerful forms of organizing in these contexts. In this confluence of opposing forces, we of course 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 actors, regardless of citizenship, which essentially works towards a deterritorialization of rights access-or the opening up of socio-political belonging to new actors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The age of removal

Part I. Counter-hegemonic human rights and redistribution of power through Milk with Dignity. The dairy industry, migrant labor exploitation, and removal

Milk with Dignity, WSRs, and their redistribution of power

Counter-hegemonic human rights against territory and removal

Part II. Race, territory, and legal activism : Polimigra, FIPP, and migrant justice's legal geographies. Race, territory, encerrado, and freedom of movement

Freedom of movement requires freedom from discrimination

Hartford, Vermont, and the legal geographies of migrant justice

Part III. Territory, rights, and migrant justice's legal battle with ICE. Legal transformation and constitutional rights

"Campaign of retaliation," free speech, migrant justice's fight for constitutional rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 13, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Chamberlain, Jacob P. Migrant justice in the age of removal.

ISBN:

9780820369921

0820369926

9780820369938

0820369934

9780820375199

0820375195

OCLC:

1479717049

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license