Mass Deportation and the Neoliberal Cycle

Tanya Golash-BozaUniversity of

KansasSociology &

American Studies@tanyagolashboza

LASA - 2012

Eric and the neoliberal cycleGlobal

inequality & outsourcing

Low wage work

Cutbacks in social

services

Enhanced enforcement arm

Privatization

Mass Deportation

In 2011, the United States DHS deported

396,906 people, more than double the number deported in

2002, and more than the entire decade of the 1980s.

1996: IIRAIRA

2001: 9/11

2003: DHS wascreated

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DEPORTATIONS: FY 1980 TO 2010

Who gets deported?

98% of deportees are

from Latin America and the Caribbean.

80 % of deportees are men.

Racial profiling + Police/ICE cooperation => Deportation of black and Latino men

How Police/ICE cooperation works1) Police pulls a person

over and checks with ICE.

2) Police arrests and books a person, then checks with ICE.

3) Person is sent to jail. Before being released, ICE is called.

Neoliberalism

1) Deregulation2) privatization of public

enterprise3) trade liberalization4) promotion of foreign

direct investment5) tax cuts6) reduction in public

expenditures

Why should we care?

An understanding of contemporary neoliberalism requires a critical examination of mass deportation.

- Deportation as social control.

- New class of expendable workers.