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Book SynopsisThis book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”
Trade ReviewThis timely volume takes sharp aim at institutions that continue to marginalize the vulnerable, and, in doing so, it makes important advances for Studies in Transgression. Toward that end, an impressive roster of international contributors demonstrates the global implications of border—and social—control. -- Michael Welch, Rutgers University and University of Buenos Aires
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment identifies the sharp edges of Western efforts to make life difficult for migrants. Importantly, it does so in part by doing what many books fail to do: expanding its gaze away from a narrow concern about the boundaries of nation-states. Reaching into fields as disparate as geography and sociology, these essays will begin to define the field of critical immigration enforcement studies. -- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
This innovative book captures the changing nature of global migration and immigration policies, critiquing and contextualizing them for readers. Theoretically rich,
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment is one of the more thorough efforts to draw important connections between mainstream aspects of U.S. criminal justice—such as hyper-incarceration and the self-reinforcing, self-fulfilling “tough on crime” approaches—and the criminalization of immigration. -- David Androff, Arizona State University
An impressive collection of scholarship written by international experts on immigration policy. * American Journal of Sociology *
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David C. Brotherton
Part I. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations2. President Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Golash-Boza
3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon
4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson
5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter
6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn
7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An Analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip Kretsedemas
Part II. Producing Deportable Subjects8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh
9. Banished Yet Undeported: The Constitution of a "Floating Population" of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Sanchez Boe
10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro
11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París Pombo and Gabriel Pérez Duperou
12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line Between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar
14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions Under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee
15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda C. Martin
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