@article{ref1,
title="Punishing survivors and criminalizing survivorship: a feminist intersectional approach to migrant justice in the crimmigration system",
journal="Studies in social justice",
year="2020",
author="Abji, Salina",
volume="14",
number="1",
pages="67-89",
abstract="Scholars have identified crimmigration - or the criminalization of &quot;irregular&quot; migration in law - as a key issue affecting migrant access to justice in contemporary immigrant-receiving societies. Yet the gendered and racialized implications of crimmigration for diverse migrant populations remains underdeveloped in this literature. This study advances a feminist intersectional approach to crimmigration and migrant justice in Canada. I add to recent research showing how punitive immigration controls disproportionately affect racialized men from the global south, constituting what Golash-Boza and Hondagneu-Sotelo have called a &quot;gendered racial removal program&quot; (2013). In my study, I shift analytical attention to consider the effects of the contemporary crimmigration system on migrant women survivors of gender-based violence. While such cases constitute a small sub-group within a larger population of migrants in detention, nevertheless scholarly attention to this group can expose the multiple axes along which state power is enacted - an analytical strategy that foundational scholars like Crenshaw (1991) used to theorize &quot;structural intersectionality&quot; in the US. In focusing on crimmigration in the Canadian context, I draw attention to the growing nexus between migration, security, and gender-based violence that has emerged alongside other processes of crimmigration. I then provide a case analysis of the 2013 death while in custody of Lucía Dominga Vega Jiménez, an &quot;undocumented&quot; migrant woman from Mexico. My analysis illustrates how migrant women's strategies to survive gender-based violence are re-cast as grounds for their detention and removal, constituting what I argue is a criminalization of survivorship.The research overall demonstrates the centrality of gendered and racialized structural violence in crimmigration processes by challenging more universalist approaches to migrant justice.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1911-4788",
doi="10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2158",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2158"
}