The Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime (SADR) is a research working group based out of The Center on Social Change and Transgressive Studies at the John Jay College for Criminal Justice in New York. It is comprised of academics and PhD students whose teaching and research focuses on crimmigration, border control, migrant detention, migrant resistance, as well as the class, gender and racial dynamics which interweave these social issues. Members of the group came together in the Summer of 2018 due to both the lack of in-depth analysis on the deportation regime in New York City, and coordinated content production on its various issues in pursuit of social change.
The Critical Social History Project builds on the discussion introduced by E.H. Carr in What is History? (1961) and developed by Bosworth (2001) and Mooney (2014) about the importance of learning from the past and the need to keep an “eye” on what lessons social science disciplines can learn from history, as well as, the input into history that can be gleaned from social science. History can help shed light on the origins and functions of inequality and exclusion, especially in the shoring up of the neo-liberal state, and the level that this persists in the present period.
With an unprecedented archive of cataloged and digitized critical criminology materials dating back over fifty years, this project will aim to breathe life back into this sidelined field through public facing materials and resources.