"I Want Them to Know We Suffer Here": Preserving Records of Migrant Detention in Opposition to Racialized Immigration Enforcement Structures

Hale Eagle, Jennifer "I Want Them to Know We Suffer Here": Preserving Records of Migrant Detention in Opposition to Racialized Immigration Enforcement Structures. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 2019, vol. 5, pp. 16-40. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Thousands of detainee abuse allegations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been documented since ICE was founded in 2003. However, few investigations occur, and they are often held internally. In 2017, ICE requested permission to destroy documents related to detainee abuse including violent assault, sexual assault, and death. The request remains under consideration by the National Records and Archives Administration. This proposal reflects a concerning pattern of anti-immigrant hostility that often intersects with race. Archivists must consider interventional archival practices to build collections that reflect the lives and histories of the disempowered through preserving their counternarratives to the official state narrative. This paper traces racialized border structures and their militarized apparatus to propose a new approach to the management and preservation of detainee abuse records.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: immigration, race, detention, ICE, NARA, archives, social justice, nativism, nationalism, ethno-nationalism
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user: Stuart Lawson
Date deposited: 27 Oct 2019 12:47
Last modified: 27 Oct 2019 12:47
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/39173

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