Constructing Illegality in America: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses

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This collection of essays examines immigration law and how the concept of immigrant 'illegality' is deployed and lived, and how its power is wielded and resisted.

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Full title :Constructing Illegality in America : Critiques, Experiences, and Responses.

Summary

This collection of essays examines immigration law and how the concept of immigrant 'illegality' is deployed and lived, and how its power is wielded and resisted.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

The Insignificance of Legality for Children in Ohio.

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Description:1 online resource (418 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107497252, 1107497256
oclc:ocn866440888
LC Classification:JV6483 .C57 2013
Dewey Decimal:325.73

Cover; Constructing Immigrant "Illegality"; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction -- Immigrant "Illegality"; Constructions of "Immigrant Illegality"; Variations in Experiences of "Illegality"; Foci of the Book; Immigrant Illegality and Organization of the Book; Bibliography; Part I The Construction of "Illegality"; 2 Immigration "Reform" and the Production of Migrant "Illegality"; What Part of "Illegal" Don't You Understand?; Mexican Migration and the Making of "Illegality"; The Revolving Door; Mexican/Migrant Illegalization.

Governing through "Illegality"Rule by Terror; What Part of "Comprehensive" Don't You Understand?; Future Research; References; 3 Coercive Immigration Enforcement and Bureaucratic Ideology; The Coercive Bureaucracy and Its Production of Ideology; Ideological Themes of Immigration Enforcement; Moral Authority; Enforcement Bureaucracy as Guardian; Delegitimizing Migrants; Bureaucratic Ideology in the Larger Society; Bureaucratic Ideological Prospects; Future Research; References; 4 "Illegality" across Generations; Public Discourse, Reproduction, and the Latino Threat.

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Subjects

Emigration and immigration -- Governmen… Emigration and immigration law Emigration and immigration law -- Unite… Émigration et immigration -- Lois -- Ét… Illegal immigration Illegal immigration -- United States Immigrants clandestins -- États-Unis Immigration clandestine -- États-Unis Immigration enforcement Immigration enforcement -- United States Noncitizens Noncitizens -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies United States United States -- Emigration and immigra…