TY  - BOOK
AU  - CHEVALIER Darializa Avila
TI  - The securitisation of immigration through the Tactical Terrorism Response Team
PY  - 2023///
KW  - TACTICAL TERRORISM RESPONSE TEAM
KW  - IMMIGRATION
KW  - CUSTOMS AND BORDER ENFORCEMENT
N2  - his article considers a significant stage in the convergence of US counterterrorism policy and immigration enforcement exemplified by the emergence of a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unit known as the Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT). In my analysis I show: (i) that TTRT agents engage in a process I call social homicide which subjects travellers to a condition of bare life; (ii) that the increasing production of border violence highlights that the convergence of securitisation and immigration enforcement is a praxis of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia; (iii) that securitisation and exclusionary immigration policy have made use of invisibility to create and expand a permanent state of exception; and (iv) that border enforcement through securitisation is used as a mechanism for the surveillance and control of social movements inside the United States.
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2023.2229618
ER  -