Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation, and Border Control

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The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. In this book, sociologists David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to reconsider the immigration policies of the Obama era and beyond in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.” Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at current issues surrounding immigration in the U.S. and abroad. It examines key features of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration enforcement. Contributors document the continuities between presidential administrations and across countries from many perspectives, with chapters discussing Canada, Australia, France, the UK, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in addition to the U.S. They offer macro-level analyses of deportations and border enforcement, analyses of national policy and jurisprudence, and ethnographic accounts of the daily life experience of the prison-to-deportation pipeline, the making of deportability, and post-deportation transitions for noncitizens. This book highlights new directions in critical immigration policy and enforcement and deportation studies with the aim of problematizing the age of punishment that currently reigns over borders and those who seek to cross them. Table of Contents ......Page 6 1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David Brotherton......Page 10 I. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations......Page 44 2. Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Bolash-Goza......Page 46 3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon......Page 66 4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson......Page 84 5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter ......Page 106 6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn......Page 125 7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An analysis of US Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip Kretsedemas ......Page 149 II. Producing Deportable Subjects......Page 174 8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh ......Page 176 9. Banished Yet Un-Deported: The Constitution of a ‘Floating Population’ of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Boe ......Page 196 10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro ......Page 212 11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París and Gabriel Pérez Duperou ......Page 231 12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement,, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park ......Page 249 13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar ......Page 266 14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee ......Page 285 15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda Martin ......Page 301 Contributors ......Page 316 Index ......Page 320