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

Philip Kretsedemas

doi:10.5771/9781793630735

Summary

In Black Interdictions, Philip Kretsedemas exposes the antiblack racism latent in the U.S. government’s Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and 1990s which set the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium and lead to the migration and refugee policies of the Trump era and beyond. This type of radical exclusion is singular to the black experience and the black/nonblack binary must be factored into an analysis of the US migration regime. It is not possible to work together for equity and justice if we are not prepared to grapple with this divisive history and the instinct to avoid dealing with the singularity of the black experience. This book will be of interest to scholars of migration and refugee studies, black studies, legal studies, public policy and international relations, and many others.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3072-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3073-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 344
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Preface No access
1. An Unprecedented Experience No access
2. Why Antiblackness Matters No access
3. Legal Storytelling and Black Interdictions No access
4. Notes No access
1. John’s Story No access
2. Controlled Mobility No access
3. Situating Controlled Mobility within Migration and Critical Race Studies No access
4. Silences and Occlusions: The Aporias of the Slave and the Law No access
5. Antiblackness and the Law No access
6. Notes No access
1. Judge King’s Complaint No access
2. Phantom Norms and Antiblack Racism: Reframing the Plenary Power Doctrine No access
3. The Haitian Program and the “Haitian Problem” No access
4. Challenging the Detention of Haitian Asylum Seekers No access
5. Federal Supremacy and Noncitizen Rights No access
6. White Property Rights and the Prohibition on Black Migration No access
7. Constitutional Rights and the Nonblack Noncitizen No access
8. White Nationalism and De Jure Discrimination No access
9. The Post-Civil Rights Era No access
10. The Failings of the Law No access
11. Notes No access
1. Judge Spellman’s Lament No access
2. Reconceiving Excludability No access
3. Radical Exclusion No access
4. The Legal Jurisprudence on Excludability and Its Loose Ends No access
5. Plenary Power, Radical Exclusion, and Chinese Immigrants No access
6. The Fong Yue Ting Dissent: Affirming the Nonblackness of the Racialized Migrant No access
7. A Different Kind of Excludability No access
8. Notes No access
1. Ronald Aubourg’s Reflections on Guantanamo No access
2. The Beginnings of the Interdiction Era No access
3. Rationalizing the Interdictions: The Exterritorial Argument No access
4. Challenging the Interdictions after the 1991 Coup No access
5. Challenging the Interdictions after the Rees Memo and the Kennebunkport Order No access
6. An (Ex)Territorial Rationale for Radical Exclusion No access
7. Progressive Legal Strategy and the Persisting Problem of Black Rightlessness No access
8. Notes No access
1. Humanitarianism as Antiblackness No access
2. Refugees, Immigrants, and the “New” Criminality No access
3. Humanitarianism and Social Control No access
4. On Criminality, Statelessness, and Antiblackness No access
5. Permutations of the Black/Nonblack Binary No access
6. US Policies for Cuban and Haitian Refugees in the 1990s No access
7. CABA v. Christopher and the Racist Subtext of Carceral Humanitarianism No access
8. The Continuing Significance of Haitian Blackness No access
9. The Permutations of Antiblackness, Revisited No access
10. Notes No access
1. Remain-in-Mexico and Title 42 No access
2. A Brief History of TPS and Deterrence Strategies Targeting Haitians in the New Millennium No access
3. Understanding Remain-in-Mexico and the Revocation of TPS as Examples of Radical Exclusion No access
4. Operation Streamline and the Obama-Era Ticket System No access
5. Challenging the Remain-in-Mexico Policy No access
6. Challenging the Cancellation of TPS No access
7. Hierarchies of Otherness No access
8. Notes No access
1. Aristide’s Analysis, Moise’s Assassination and the January Insurrection No access
2. The Explanatory Value of Blackness: Epistemological Meditations on Antiblack Animus and Controlled Mobility No access
3. A Legal Strategy for the End of the World and Beyond No access
4. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 299 - 326
Index No access Pages 327 - 342
About the Author No access Pages 343 - 344