Fammigration Web

This article was written by S. Lisa Washington and published in Boston University Law Review.

“This Article makes three central contributions. One, it provides the first theoretical account of family regulation system and immigration enforcement system interconnectedness. Two, it identifies how nodes in the fammigration web exacerbate the risk of family separation for noncitizen and mixed-status families by marking and subordinating them. Three, it situates efforts to shrink the fammigration web alongside other efforts to shrink the carceral state. To dismantle carceral logics, we must identify how they are produced across systems. While this requires long-term strategies, this Article offers a few immediate ways to sever threads and shrink the fammigration web.”