Deportability, gender and legal violence: a literature review on deportation and anti-trafficking policies

Publication date: 04/2023

Author:

Sandra Gil Araujo, Carolina Rosas and María Lis Baiocchi

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Sandra Gil Araujo, investigadora, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires (sandragilaraujo@yahoo.es). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3816-7928

Carolina Rosas, investigadora, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires (rosas.carol@gmail.com). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0903-5595

María Lis Baiocchi, becaria postdoctoral, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (mlbaiocchi@flacso.org.ar). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6839-8305.

This paper is based on an understanding of the global immigration control regime as one of legal violence. It analyses the specialist literature that reveals the existence of an economy of deportability, understood as the unequal distribution of the forms of state power in the lives and freedoms of non-nationals, with gender playing a preponderant role. Taking a gender perspective, a selection of texts from the past two decades are reviewed that analyse the deportation and anti-trafficking apparatus in Europe, the United States and South America. The literature corroborates the existence of a gendered economy of deportability that generates social suffering that, in different ways and to differing degrees, shapes the (im)migrant presence in the national order.

Keywords: migration control, deportability, gender, legal violence, United States, Europe, South America

How to cite this article: Gil Araujo, Sandra; Rosas, Carolina y Baiocchi, María Lis. «Deportabilidad, género y violencia legal: una revisión bibliográfica sobre deportaciones y políticas antitrata». Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, n.º 133 (abril de 2023), p. 17-39 DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2023.133.1.17

Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, nº 133, p. 17-39
Quadrimestral (January-April 2023)
ISSN:1133-6595 | E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2023.133.1.17

Reception date: 27.09.22 ; Acceptance date: 20.02.23

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