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  • 6 - Spectacular Immigration Enforcement in Hidden Spaces

  • from Part II - Animal Law in Context: The Limits of Carceral Strategies
  • Edited by Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, Justin Marceau
  • Book:
    Carceral Logics
    Published online:
    09 April 2022
    Print publication:
    14 April 2022, pp 105-127
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    Spectacular immigration enforcement—large-scale, highly-publicized immigration enforcement efforts in concentrated geographic spaces—plays an important role in the maintenance of the racial order of the United States and of the global region that it dominates. These enforcement efforts, like prison walls and border walls, act as high-visibility markers of socio-political exclusion and inclusion. Spectacular immigration enforcement has a direct, material effect: through these efforts, officials signal the condition of deportability to immigrant workers without significantly undercutting the industry’s labor supply. But they also have a more diffuse effect on the structure and understanding of power and of belonging. By focusing on spectacular immigration enforcement efforts at the site of animal slaughter, this chapter sheds light on how immigrant deportability is facilitated by and reinforces structural racism. It also underscores the salience of race in shaping how people see – or fail to see – the exercise of state and private violence.