β Scribed by Julie A. Dowling and Johnathan Xavier Inda
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the United States, immigration is generally seen as a law and order issue. Amidst increasing anti-immigrant sentiment, unauthorized migrants have been cast as lawbreakers. Governing Immigration Through Crime offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of crime and punishment to manage undocumented immigrants. Presenting key readings and cutting-edge scholarship, this volume examines a range of contemporary criminalizing practices: restrictive immigration laws, enhanced border policing, workplace audits, detention and deportation, and increased policing of immigration at the state and local level. Of equal importance, the readings highlight how migrants have managed to actively resist these punitive practices. In bringing together critical theorists of immigration to understand how the current political landscape propagates the view of the "illegal alien" as a threat to social order, this text encourages students and general readers alike to think seriously about the place of undocumented immigrants in American society.
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Governing Migrant Illegality
Part I: Law and Criminalization
1. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant βIllegalityβ
2. The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power
3. The Security Myth: Punishing Immigrants in the Name of National Security
Part II: Managing Borders
4. Constructing a Virtual Wall: Race and Citizenship in U.S.-Mexico Border Policing
5. Spectacle in the Desert: The Minuteman Project on the U.S.-Mexico Border
6. Bare Life: Border-Crossing Deaths and Spaces of Moral Alibi
Part III: Policing the Interior
7. The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions
8. Arizonaβs SB 1070: Setting Conditions for Violations of Human Rights Here and Beyond
9. Immigration as Local Politics: Re-Bordering Immigration Through Deterrence and Incapacitation
Part IV: Detention and Deportation
10. Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention
11. βΒΏQuien sabe?β: Deportation and Temporality Among Transnational Mexicans
12. Exiled by Law: Deportation and the Inviability of Life
Part V: Immigrant Contestations
13. (Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Citizenship in La Gran Marcha
14. Left Out but Not Shut Down: Political Activism and the Undocumented Student Movement
15. From Border Control to Border Care: The Political and Ethical Potential of Surveillance
Index
immigration, crime, criminilization, crimmigration
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