Abstract
This chapter provides examples of certain issues of dislocation, violence, and irreality. It turns to two cases: one a class action brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2018, the other a formal petition filed with the Riksdag (Swedish parliament) by the Association of Ethiopian and Eritrean Adoptees (AEF) in Stockholm in 2018. At issue in the first case was ICE officials' widespread practice of separating undocumented children and parents so that the latter could be prosecuted for entering the United States without authorization or detained while their immigration cases were pending. In the second case, the AEF called for the implementation of stringent policies in Sweden and in the nations from which Sweden receives children in adoption. This was to ensure the preservation of all possible information regarding why a decision was made to place a child in international adoption rather than in the custody of relatives or adoptive parents in the country of birth.
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