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Governing immigration through crime : a reader / edited by Julie A. Dowling and Jonathan Xavier Inda.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.
- Noncitizens.
- Noncitizens--United States.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Illegal immigration.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 311 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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."- from publisher website
- Contents:
- Introduction : governing migrant illegality / Jonathan Xavier Inda and Julie A. Dowling
- The legal production of Mexican/migrant "illegality" / Nicholas De Genova
- The crimmigration crisis : immigrants, crime, and sovereign power / Juliet P. Stumpf
- The security myth : punishing immigrants in the name of national security / Jennifer M. Chacón
- Constructing a virtual wall : race and citizenship in U.S.-Mexico border policing / Josiah McC. Heyman
- Spectacle in the desert : the Minuteman Project on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Leo R. Chavez
- Bare life : border-crossing deaths and spaces of moral alibi / Roxanne Lynn Doty
- The rise and fall of employer sanctions / David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing
- Arizona's SB 1070 : setting conditions for violations of human rights here and beyond / Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar, and San Juanita Edilia García
- Immigration as local politics : re-bordering immigration through deterrence and incapacitation / Liette Gilbert
- Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández
- "AQuien sabe?" : deportation and temporality among transnational Mexicans / Deborah A. Boehm
- Exiled by law : deportation and the inviability of life / Susan Bibler Coutin
- (Re)bordering the civic imaginary : rhetoric, hybridity, and citizenship in La Gran Marcha / Josue David Cisneros
- Left out but not shut down : political activism and the undocumented student movement / Roberto G. Gonzales
- From border control to border care : the political and ethical potential of surveillance / James P. Walsh.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804785419
- 0804785414
- OCLC:
- 827207951
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