Border Abolition in (Re)integration Support: Incarceration, Deportation, and an Abolitionist Praxis in the Tijuana Borderlands.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

After a surge in Mexican family migrations to the United States during the mid 1970s, Chicano/Mexicano immigrant communities in states like California increasingly formed and sustained transnational support networks that paid particular attention to an increase in border policing and migrant criminalization. These networks shifted and adjusted to organize themselves against anti-immigrant laws and rhetoric. Mexican families and their transnational support networks organized against imprisonment and deportation, state-sanctioned punishments. Border Abolition in (Re)integration Support: Incarceration, Deportation, and an Abolitionist Praxis in Tijuana's Borderlands follows my uncle Jose's journey through his migrant barrio youthhood, incarceration in the California State Prison System, and (re)integration to Tijuana after deportation from incarceration. Employing autoethnography, testimonio, and archival analysis as primary methods, I examine the intricacies of how his support networks refused to abandon the life of a criminalized migrant amidst binational carcerality in the California-Tijuana borderlands region. I argue that Mexican formerly incarcerated deportees and their transnational support networks conceive a border abolitionist praxis.