In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children …
"What difference does law make in immigration policymaking? Since the 1970s, networks of progressive attorneys in both the US and France have attempted to use litigation to assert rights for non-citizens. Yet judicial engagement - while numerically voluminous - remains doctrinal…
Introduction : The "Problem" of Migration / Robert Koulish and Maartje van der Woude -- Insecurity Syndrome : The Challenges of Trump's Carceral State / Tony Platt -- Migration, Populism, Racism : Between "Old" Italy and "New" Europe / Dario Melossi -- The Promise of the Border …
"A timely examination of the increasing efforts to criminalize the status of immigrants, exiles, and refugees"--
"Whether motivated by humanitarianism or concern over 'porous' borders, dominant commentary on migration in Europe has consistently focused on clandestine border crossings. Much less, however, is known about the everyday workings of immigration law inside borders. Drawing on in-…
The two revolutions -- The kinetic nation -- The Immigration Act of 1965 -- The multiracial state -- Common wealth -- The privileged classes -- Out of status -- Local, state, and federal -- The great divide -- The future of American migrations -- Epilogue
Destination Europe -- The human rights of migrants and refugees in a pluralist setting -- Constructing migration status -- Human rights to family life and family migration -- Defining protection : refugeehood, non-refoulement, and human rights -- Access to protection -- Immigrat…
"This ethnography investigates immigration enforcement in New York City, following individual migrants, their lawyers, and the NGOs that serve them into the immigration courtrooms that decide their cases"--
There is a highly significant and under-considered intersection and interaction between migration law and labour law. Labour lawyers have tended to regard migration law as generally speaking outside their purview, and migration lawyers have somewhat similarly tended to neglect l…
"When we think of illegal immigrants, we typically think about people from developing countries - Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Nigeria - entering developed countries - the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany. According to conventional wisdom, those who …
Acknowledgements. List of Acronyms. Introduction: A Paradox: Illegal Immigrants As Citizens. Part 1: The Process. 1. Searching for Illegal Immigrants. 2. Networks of Complicity. 3. Blurred Membership. 4. Documentary Citizenship. Part II: The Proof. 5. Voters Across Borders. 6. T…
