Governing immigration through crime: a reader

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

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 -- "¿Quien sabe?" : deportation and temporality among transnational Mexicans / Deborah A. Boehm -- Exiled by law : deportation and the …