Punishing mobility: membership, race, and privatization in all-foreign prisons in the United States of America
<p>My DPhil thesis examines a set of outsourced, all-foreign prisons operated by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons called Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) facilities. In operation from 2000 to 2023, these prisons were unique for a series of reasons. First, they were explicitly designed to segre...
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| description | <p>My DPhil thesis examines a set of outsourced, all-foreign prisons operated by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons called Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) facilities. In operation from 2000 to 2023, these prisons were unique for a series of reasons. First, they were explicitly designed to segregate foreign national offenders from the rest of the Federal prison population. Second, they were the only outsourced prisons within the Federal prison system, and operated under a separate, less-stringent regulatory regime. These all-foreign prisons also disproportionately incarcerated Latino men (89%) in general, and Mexican men (72%) in particular.</p>
<p>This thesis asks what the imbrication of punishment and migration control within all-foreign prisons can tell us about the contemporary nation-state. I develop this argument along three lines. First, I argue that the emergence, operation, and closure of this outsourced all-foreign prison system illustrates the evolving relationship between prisons and migration control. Analysis of the creation of the Criminal Alien Requirement prison system shows us how political leaders imagined a new kind of penal process – what I call the ‘prison-to-deportation pipeline’ – in which deportation became the default result for people without citizenship.</p>
<p>Second, my research demonstrates how outsourced incarceration has become premised on the differential treatment of racialized foreign-national offenders. Criminal Alien Requirement prisons have pioneered a new kind of carceral economy where financial value is extracted from the social and biological reproduction of offenders themselves. I demonstrate how this economic model of incarceration is premised on the differential treatment of non-citizens, and the racialized commodification of illegality.</p>
<p>Finally, my research demonstrates how this system of differential penal treatment produced experiences of abandonment and precarity. These experiences of abandonment defined exclusion from political membership in material and symbolic terms. I argue that paying attention to the ways in which people incarcerated in all-foreign prisons articulated their exclusion offers us a way to begin challenging what Angelica Chazaro calls the ‘criminal alien paradigm’ and uncoupling practices of punishment and migration control.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2114e578-9b06-4715-8e93-9d152d3e72062023-12-04T17:34:08ZPunishing mobility: membership, race, and privatization in all-foreign prisons in the United States of AmericaThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:2114e578-9b06-4715-8e93-9d152d3e7206English, Old (ca. 450-1100)EnglishHyrax Deposit2023Tuck, RHBosworth, M<p>My DPhil thesis examines a set of outsourced, all-foreign prisons operated by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons called Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) facilities. In operation from 2000 to 2023, these prisons were unique for a series of reasons. First, they were explicitly designed to segregate foreign national offenders from the rest of the Federal prison population. Second, they were the only outsourced prisons within the Federal prison system, and operated under a separate, less-stringent regulatory regime. These all-foreign prisons also disproportionately incarcerated Latino men (89%) in general, and Mexican men (72%) in particular.</p> <p>This thesis asks what the imbrication of punishment and migration control within all-foreign prisons can tell us about the contemporary nation-state. I develop this argument along three lines. First, I argue that the emergence, operation, and closure of this outsourced all-foreign prison system illustrates the evolving relationship between prisons and migration control. Analysis of the creation of the Criminal Alien Requirement prison system shows us how political leaders imagined a new kind of penal process – what I call the ‘prison-to-deportation pipeline’ – in which deportation became the default result for people without citizenship.</p> <p>Second, my research demonstrates how outsourced incarceration has become premised on the differential treatment of racialized foreign-national offenders. Criminal Alien Requirement prisons have pioneered a new kind of carceral economy where financial value is extracted from the social and biological reproduction of offenders themselves. I demonstrate how this economic model of incarceration is premised on the differential treatment of non-citizens, and the racialized commodification of illegality.</p> <p>Finally, my research demonstrates how this system of differential penal treatment produced experiences of abandonment and precarity. These experiences of abandonment defined exclusion from political membership in material and symbolic terms. I argue that paying attention to the ways in which people incarcerated in all-foreign prisons articulated their exclusion offers us a way to begin challenging what Angelica Chazaro calls the ‘criminal alien paradigm’ and uncoupling practices of punishment and migration control.</p> |
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