The Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime (SADR) is a research working group based out of The Center on Social Change and Transgressive Studies at the John Jay College for Criminal Justice in New York. It is comprised of academics and PhD students whose teaching and research focuses on crimmigration, border control, migrant detention, migrant resistance, as well as the class, gender and racial dynamics which interweave these social issues. Members of the group came together in the Summer of 2018 due to both the lack of in-depth analysis on the deportation regime in New York City, and coordinated content production on its various issues in pursuit of social change.
A key goal of this project is to make knowledge on the deportation regime available to all those mobilizing to resist - from immigration advocates, defense lawyers to community members directly or indirectly targeted by the regime. Events and academic material will be made accessible to the general public in order to facilitate debate and discussion on the key issues relating to the deportation regime. Field and archival knowledge will be made available to policy makers in their quest for a human rights based immigration reform building on successes within the current system, and advocating for more humane improvements and alterations.
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