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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463209203321

Titolo

Governing immigration through crime [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Julie A. Dowling and Jonathan Xavier Inda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Social Sciences, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8541-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 311 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

DowlingJulie A. <1975->

IndaJonathan Xavier

Disciplina

364.1/370973

Soggetti

Noncitizens - Government policy - United States

Noncitizens - United States

Illegal immigration - United States

Illegal immigration - Government policy - United States

Emigration and immigration law - United States

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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. Chac{acute}on -- 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 S{acute}aenz, Cecilia Menj{acute}ivar, and San Juanita Edilia Garc{acute}ia -- Immigration as local politics : re-bordering immigration through deterrence and incapacitation / Liette Gilbert -- Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and



immigrant detention / David Manuel Hern{acute}andez -- "A<U+00cc><U+008a>Quien 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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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