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Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader

By Julie Dowling; Jonathan Inda

Book information

Publisher
Stanford Social Sciences
Year
2013
ISBN
0804778817, 9780804778817
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
832 kB (851765 bytes)
Pages
320\42
Time added
2020-12-30 02:36:51
Crimecriminilization,immigration

Description

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. Also available from academia.edu

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