@article{bailey-hall_estrada_2022, title={Private Immigration Detention without the Immigrants: The Subtle Use of Controlling Images in the Contemporary Era}, ISSN={["1552-3381"]}, DOI={10.1177/00027642221083537}, abstractNote={Scholars have well-established the socio-political and legal history of immigrant detention as a form of racialized social control in the United States. In recent years, private prison companies have benefited financially from this system, amassing sizeable profits in spite of vast criticisms and concerns. For this project, we focus on how private immigration detention—as a modern-day form of racialized social control—is normalized. Using the theoretical concept of controlling images, we examine how private prison companies frame the people they detain. Results from our analysis of 143 press releases indicate that private prisons rarely talk about the people they detain. Instead, the companies make vague and indirect references using inanimate objects which dehumanizes them. When the companies do reference migrants, they often characterize them as wards of the state, and in doing so, private prison companies are infantilizing people in lockup in subtle ways. Companies also engage in a significant amount of rhetoric that champions their organizations as they bolster their business amidst scandals and allegations. We conclude that these controlling images, while appearing race neutral, are quite effective in contributing to the invisibility of these groups and maintenance of the status quo. These actions further their exploitable quality by reproducing the oppression of racial others and simultaneously function to legitimize the business practices of private prison companies.}, journal={AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST}, author={Bailey-Hall, Miara L. and Estrada, Emily P.}, year={2022}, month={Mar} }
 @article{curington_bailey-hall_2021, title={Global gendered anti-Black belonging and racial ideology}, ISSN={["1751-9020"]}, DOI={10.1111/soc4.12927}, abstractNote={Abstract We review theorizations of gendered anti‐Blackness and the scholarship on the politics of belonging. Bridging together this literature, we propose gendered anti‐Black non‐belonging as an alternative framework for addressing African descendant women's expressions and realities of belonging in the United States and Portugal. We select these two cases for their remarkably distinct—yet related—racial ideologies of the state. In the United States, colorblindness is the main ideology of the state whereas in Portugal anti‐racial ideology pervades. As we will highlight, the experiences of belonging among African descendant women in the United States and Portugal challenge the veracity of these racial ideologies which work to render gendered anti‐Black oppression invisible. In both cases, anti‐Black non‐belonging means that African descendant women are vulnerable to gendered state violence and racist practices impacting their individual and group belonging; as a result, the right for Black bodies to be in a particular place and space is constantly contested, and, often, violently regulated and disciplined. Yet, anti‐Black belonging is both a matter of oppression and resistance. African‐descendant women draw from their everyday knowledge of domination to employ resistance. In doing so, as we will argue, they rewrite the national narrative of race, gender and belonging in Portugal and the United States.}, journal={SOCIOLOGY COMPASS}, author={Curington, Celeste Vaughan and Bailey-Hall, Miara}, year={2021}, month={Sep} }
 @article{bailey-hall_2021, title={Thick: And Other Essays}, volume={7}, ISSN={["2332-6505"]}, DOI={10.1177/2332649221990013}, number={1}, journal={SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY}, author={Bailey-Hall, Miara}, year={2021}, month={Jan}, pages={141–U6} }