archives@tulane.edu / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “alternatives to detention” program, known as the Intensive Supervisory Appearance Program (ISAP) is promoted as a “humane” immigration enforcement method for Central American women with children. In addition to frequent reporting requirements, ISAP enrollees are required to wear an electronic ankle bracelet monitor, typically referred to as “grilletes” or “shackles” by the persons who wear them. This thesis uses historical and media analysis methods to first demonstrate how mainstream media uses neoliberal gender ideologies that simultaneously domesticate and criminalize immigrant parents to justify the practice of assigning ankle shackles to Central American women with children. The second part is based on six in-depth interviews with men and women in ISAP. Drawing on these interviews as well as feminist theories of the body, labor, and space, this thesis develops the concept of “embodied illegality” as a way to demonstrate the punitive and detention-like effects of the “grilletes” on its wearers’ lives. It also discusses how gender shapes men and women’s experiences of embodied illegality and suggest that—because of prevailing gender ideologies about women, motherhood, and domesticity—women may have more punitive experiences from the “grillete.” / 1 / Karla Daniela Rosas Rosas

The aim of the thesis is to answer the following question: What is the aim and the purpose of the migration-related detention? The question is further specified in four sub-questions provided in the introduction. Given that the essence of the detention is the deprivation of personal liberty as one of the fundamental human rights, the practice of detaining migrants in the Czech Republic seems to be in conflict with the personal liberty guarantees stipulated by the constitutional laws of the country, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and several international human rights treaties. Resolutions of this conflict requires that such conditions are identified, under which the restriction of personal liberty is permissible. The list of conditions is provided in the thesis, including a legitimate purpose of the restriction of the fundamental right. Any restrictive practice must be capable of achieving this purpose and must not be misused for a purpose other than this. Subsequently, the thesis identifies aims of the different types of migrated-related detention, provided by the Czech laws - the Police Act, Aliens Act and the Asylum Act. The immediate aim pursued by detaining an alien is often to prevent him from obstructing a particular legal proceeding or action. The thesis also deals with the...