Event
Dr. Isabel Anadon: Profiting from Immigrant Detention
3101 Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pa
Over the last half of the 20th century, a steady increase in government and contractual allocations to carceral facilities, such as jails and prisons, has evolved alongside increasing immigrant detention at the federal level. This talk will examine the relationship between prison building, privatization, and the expansion of the immigrant detention system in towns and counties across the United States since 1980.
Featured Speaker
Dr. Isabel Anadon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Her work examines how changes and shifts in the legal system and changing definitions and norms of punishment, over time, impact the lives of those punished and the accompanying structural changes that accrue to their familial and social networks. Working at the intersection of punishment and race and ethnicity, she uses a socio-legal framework to advance the theoretical and empirical study of modern-day immigration law, its intertwining with criminal law, and the disproportionate impact on immigrant and racialized groups over the last half-century. Her current work documents and analyzes the systematic extension of immigration enforcement and control at the subnational level, across U.S. jurisdictions and states.