‘How Can I Have a Future?’: The Temporal Violence of Deportation

Heidbrink, Lauren

doi:10.1080/07256868.2022.2086224

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“…Hemispheric forms of institutional inequality has prompted scholars to identify how Indigenous youth foster forms of resilience, which simultaneously redefine cultural understandings of what it means to be Indigenous and a youth approaching adulthood (Cruz-Salazar 2012; O'Connor and Canizales 2023). Indeed, as Allweiss (2023) identifies in her research, Indigenous Maya youth in Guatemala and the United States create spaces that nurture forms of solidarity, which defy nation-state centered notions of belonging and the "immigration" enforcement measures used to inflict violence toward the Indigenous (Heidbrink 2022).…”

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Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Gil-García,

Akalin,

Bové

et al. 2024

Social Sciences

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Enhanced immigration enforcement measures are now a dominant practice throughout the world. The concept of transnationalism, used by scholars to illuminate the complex dynamics these measures have across nation-state borders, has been critiqued for its replication of methodological nationalism—the assumption that the nation-state is a natural social and political form of the modern world. How then can migration scholars deepen the understanding of the mobilities of migrant children and youth without replicating methodological nationalism? We propose a relational socio-cultural analytic that synthesizes settler colonial theory and the theory of racialized legal status to comprehend the complex experiences of Indigenous migrant Maya youth and families throughout the Americas. Our use of a relational critical comparative analysis challenges structural functionalist approaches that limit the study migration dynamics within nation-state contexts, which can unwittingly sustain national membership in a state(s) as an aspirational emblem of belonging. We explore how Indigenous Maya experience and challenge the meaning of statelessness and the spillover effects of immigration enforcement measures along the US–Mexico and Mexico–Guatemala borders. We argue that a relational socio-cultural analytic lens serves as a powerful tool for understanding how nation-states co-produce stateless Indigenous populations and how these populations persist throughout the Americas and the world.

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Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Gil-García,

Akalin,

Bové

et al. 2024

Social Sciences

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Epilogue: ‘Claiming Time’ Special Issue

Griffiths

2024

Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper offers an epilogue to a special edition of articles employing a temporal lens to examine the politics of European asylum and reception systems. From camps to courts to casework, the papers explore a range of temporal matters arising in relation to attempts to manage human mobility. In this epilogue, I identify three temporal themes that arise across the different papers and that are dominant in contemporary Euro-American migration governance. These are: 1) the tempos (the strategic, often contradictory, employment of fast and slow speeds); 2) synchronicity (the multiplicity of times in European migration systems, and the alienation caused by disharmony); and 3) the tenses (from thwarted and inaccessible individual futures, to political representations of the past and future, and the enduring reverberations of past events). The prologue goes on to argue the importance of avoiding allochronism and identifies ways the authors avoid temporally ‘othering’ people, including by recognising people’s autonomy in acts of timing and in reclaiming and recalibrating their own timelines and rhythms. The paper ends with a call for the migration sector to ‘widen our gaze’ and to draw out the underlying colonial and capitalist temporalities so as to situate migration governance in broader temporal bordering and dispossession. After all, themes of limbo, impermanence, insecurity, temporal poverty, negated futures, temporal dissonance, and other temporal governance mechanisms that hierarchise, marginalise and discipline us, are increasingly evident across the globe, whether or not we cross a border.

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Introduction: Living in the ‘Here and Now’: Extended Temporalities of Forced Migration

Sakti

Amrith

2022

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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‘How Can I Have a Future?’: The Temporal Violence of Deportation

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Understanding the Mobilities of Indigenous Migrant Youth across the Americas

Epilogue: ‘Claiming Time’ Special Issue

Introduction: Living in the ‘Here and Now’: Extended Temporalities of Forced Migration

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