Dismantling Silence Around Blackness and Mobility

Jaya Ramji-Nogales on Jotwell (Dismantling Silence Around Blackness and Mobility) looks at Philip Kretsedemas & Jamella N. Gow, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants & Mobilities Through the Critique of Antiblackness (2024).  It begins as follows:  "Immigration law as a field of scholarly inquiry is largely critical of the status quo, with much of the literature describing inequities authorized by law and implemented through policy. An increasing number of these works foreground the work that race performs in perpetrating and perpetuating injustice in the immigration system. Yet there remains a profound silence around the question of blackness in migration. Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations begins to dismantle that silence . . . ." Click the link above for the entire piece. Cite as: Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Dismantling Silence Around Blackness and Mobility, JOTWELL (August 9, 2024) (reviewing Philip Kretsedemas & Jamella N. Gow, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants & Mobilities Through the Critique of Antiblackness (2024)), https://lex.jotwell.com/dismantling-silence-around-blackness-and-mobility/. The post Dismantling Silence Around Blackness and Mobility appeared first on Lex. KJ