DEPORTEDIntroduction: Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle

Class Goals

• Develop an understanding of the “neoliberal cycle”• Develop an understanding of how globalization has

facilitated the movement of capital across borders yet restricted the movement of people.

• Develop an understanding of what “mass deportation” is, what makes it possible, and who it affects.

• Develop an understanding of the connections between mass incarceration, global capitalism, and economic restructuring.

Fuerza Aérea Guatemalteca

Inglewood, Los Angeles

Eric: Suspected, Arrested, Deported

Eric and the neoliberal cycleGlobal

inequality & outsourcing

Low wage work

Cutbacks in social services

Enhanced enforcement arm

Privatization

Who is affected by deportation

98% of deportees are

from Latin America and the Caribbean.

88% of deportees are men.

• Let’s take a closer look at who is being deported and how deportations are happening.

2012: Half of all deportations were on criminal grounds

Immigration, 47,438

Traffic; 46,038Drugs; 42,620

Assault; 12,962

Larceny; 5,388

Fraud; 3,849

Other; 41,150

Enhancement in interior enforcement

In 2011,100,000 deportations involved parents with U.S. citizen children.

Change in interior v border removals

How do we understand mass deportation?

Neoliberalism

1) Deregulation2) privatization of public

enterprise3) trade liberalization4) promotion of foreign

direct investment5) tax cuts6) reduction in public

expenditures

Neoliberalism and the Coercive arm of the state

“The U.S. designed the War on Drugs, not to protect the poor, but to transform them into “compliant workers fit or forced to fill the peripheral slots of the deregulated labor market” (Wacquant 2009)

New crisis. Old tactics.

Neoliberalism – here and abroad

Economic Restructuring in

the United States

Mass incarceration

Enhancement in the coercive arm

of the stateDeportation

Structural Adjustment in the

Third World

Migr

ation

1970stoday

Questions for discussion

• To what extent has recent deportation policy targeted dangerous people?

• How do neoliberal policies promote globalization?• How is immigration related to globalization?• How is economic restructuring related to

globalization?• How does studying deportation help us to see the

connections between mass incarceration, global capitalism, and economic restructuring in the United States?

Class Goals: RECAP

• Develop an understanding of the “neoliberal cycle”• Develop an understanding of how globalization has

facilitated the movement of capital across borders yet restricted the movement of people?

• Develop an understanding of what “mass deportation” is, what makes it possible, and who it affects.

• Develop an understanding of the connections between mass incarceration, global capitalism, and economic restructuring.