Dean Spade Quotes About Immigration

Quotes about: Immigration

• When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?

  Dean Spade

  Jobs, Offering, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

• Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

  Dean Spade

  Military, Names, Priorities

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

• Instead of focusing on what the law says about trans people, which is really what the law is saying about itself as a protector of trans people, we should be focused on what systems of law and administration do to trans people and our interventions should aim to dismantle harmful, violent systems such as criminal punishment and immigration enforcement.

  Dean Spade

  Law, Punishment, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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