Feminist Disruptions: Rethinking Expulsion, Carcerality, and Mobility

Abstract

This panel aims to explore how feminist perspectives have influenced the study of mobilities, particularly focusing on expulsion and incarceration. By integrating feminist theories as a central lens, we seek to understand the dynamics of differences, inequalities, and power relations that shape these processes. Scholars drawing on criminologies, mobilities, and transnationalisms have highlighted the gendered impacts of border control and detention policies, particularly on migrant women and asylum seekers, including the violation of women’s sexual and reproductive rights. Other scholars have explored the incarceration of foreign nationals as well as practices of expulsion including deportation . However, more thorough integration and sustained dialogue between the literatures on border control, incarceration, and penality with feminist and gender studies is needed. The panel will critically examine how feminist lenses have contributed to contemporary studies on mobilities, specifically in relation to expulsions and incarcerations, by addressing their theoretical intersections. We aim to highlight the contributions of feminist approaches to the development of studies on migration, carcerality, and expulsion, focusing on the innovative theoretical and methodological challenges emerging from this encounter. Through this exploration, the panel will discuss the ways in which various strands of feminism have enriched our understanding of the complex interplay between gender (and its intersections), power, and migration in the global context, particularly within processes that both criminalize and expel populations in the margins. The contributions reflect on the advances made through feminist engagement with the study of expulsions and incarcerations, emphasizing how feminist theories have shaped, and continue to shape, scholarly discussions and interventions in this critical area.​​

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