Black Interdictions - Haitian Refugees and Antiblack Racism on the High Seas

Black Interdictions exposes the antiblack racism that was latent in the US government's Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and the 1990s, setting the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium.

List of contents

Introduction: Black Interdictions
Chapter 1: Navigating the Chasm: Antiblackness, Mobilities, and the Law
Chapter 2: Sovereign Bodies and the Law: A Pre-History of the Antiblack Racism Underlying
the US Government's Haitian Refugee Policies
Chapter 3: Radical Exclusion
Chapter 4: Challenging the Interdictions
Chapter 5: Reconfiguring the Black/Nonblack Binary: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian and
Cuban Refugees in the Era of Operation Sea Signa
Chapter 6: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian, African and Central American Refugees in the
Trump Era
Chapter 7: A Legal Strategy for the End of the World, and Beyond

About the author

By Philip Kretsedemas

Summary

Black Interdictions exposes the antiblack racism that was latent in the US government's Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and the 1990s, setting the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Kretsedemas
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793630742
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-074-2
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social discrimination & inequality, Social discrimination & equal treatment, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Refugees & Political Asylum, Citizenship & nationality law