Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative intervention that challenges the popular and scholarly understandings of institutional surveillance on undocumented immigrants. . . . valuable, nuanced, and insightful. . . . This important book will surely support the societal inclusion of undocumented immigrants by illuminating and interfering in the inequalities of laws and policies."
---Oscar R. Cornejo Casares, Law & Society Review"
Engage and Evade is an interdisciplinary study at the intersection of sociology, political science and law, which makes a significant contribution to the fields of migration and surveillance studies."
---P. Arun, International Migration Review"
Engage and Evade, a thought-provoking study of how undocumented immigrants contend with surveillance, sheds light on why the vast majority of undocumented immigrants follow the law: they were also law-abiding in their home countries and now seek social inclusion in the United States, where they are making a life for their families. . . .
Engage and Evade is sociology at its finest."
---Richard Mora, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Asad challenges the conventional notion that undocumented immigrants in the United States hide in the shadows, fearful of all forms of institutional authority. Rather, he persuasively argues, many engage selectively and rationally with both law enforcement and service institutions such as schools, hospitals and health clinics, and organizations that provide social assistance."
---Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs"[A]dmirable is Asad’s intimate familiarity with the narratives, sentiments, and aspirations Latino immigrants express as they make [a] life in the United States"
---Aaron Arredondo, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Beyond portraying immigrants in the workplace as workers or households as parents alone, Asad explores what it means to be wholly human . . . In [
Engage and Evade], it is beautiful to see immigrants subjectivities centralized in the analysis of their everyday decisions and behaviors related to institutional interactions. . . . [A] must-read."
---Stephanie Canizales, Social Forces
