Session III: Gendered, Legal and Institutional Targeting of the ‘Poor Other’

Who is identified as ‘poor’, and how are they targeted through policy, punitive legal policies, and institutions such as the criminal justice system?

Revealing dependences: House Bill 87 and immigrant labor regimes in rural Georgia, USA – Lise Nelson, Department of Geography, Penn State University
Devolution and Entangled Exclusions: Linking Immigration Enforcement and Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles, CA
Maegan Miller, Department of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles
Enduring Incarceration: Gender, Race, and Carceral Precarity – Anne Bonds, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Re-thinking the relationship between poverty and gendered violence: structural violence and vulnerability in Hyderabad, India
Amy Piedalue, Department of Geography, University of Washington
Poverty Oriented Ontology
Ali Hassan, University of British Columbia and Matthew Lilko, Trent University

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