The Hidden Educational Costs of Intensified Immigration Enforcement

Immigration law and enforcement choices have enhanced the salience of Latino racial identity in the United States. Yet, to date, courts and administrative agencies have proven remarkably reluctant to confront head on the role of race in immigration enforcement practices. Courts improperly conflate legal nationality and ‘national origin’, thereby cloaking in legality impermissible profiling based on national origin. Courts also maintain the primacy of purported security concerns over the equal protection concerns raised by racial profiling in routine immigration enforcement activities. This, in turn, promotes racially motivated policing practices, reifying both racial distinctions and racial discrimination. Drawing on textual analysis of judicial decisions as well as on interviews with immigrants and immigrant justice organization staff in California, this chapter illustrates how courts contribute to racialized immigration enforcement practices, and explores how those practices affect individual immigrants’ articulation of racial identity and their perceptions of race and racial hierarchy in their communities.

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Reversing Channels and Unsettling Binaries: Rethinking Migration and Agrarian Change under Expanded Border and Immigration Enforcement

Land ◽

10.3390/land10030228 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 228

Author(s):

Richard L. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Environmental Change ◽

Central America ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Agrarian Change ◽

Immigration Enforcement ◽

Labor Exploitation ◽

Agrarian Studies ◽

Political Ecologies ◽

Migrant Groups

Unauthorized migration under global regimes of border and immigration enforcement has become more risky and costly than ever. Despite the increasing challenges of reaching, remaining in, and remitting from destination countries, scholarship exploring the implications of migration for agricultural and environmental change in migrant-sending regions has largely overlooked the prevalent experiences and consequences of “failed” migration. Drawing from recent fieldwork in Central America with deportees, this paper demonstrates how contemporary migration at times reverses the “channels” of agrarian change in migrant-sending regions: instead of driving remittance inflow and labor loss, migration under contemporary enforcement can result in debt and asset dispossession, increased vulnerability, and heightened labor exploitation. Diverse migration outcomes under expanded enforcement also reveal a need to move beyond the analytical binary that emphasizes differentiations between migrant and non-migrant groups while overlooking the profound socioeconomic unevenness experienced among migrants themselves. With grounding in critical agrarian studies, feminist geographies, and emerging political ecologies of migration, this paper argues that increased attention to the highly dynamic and diverse lived experiences of migration under expanded enforcement stands to enhance our understanding of the multiple ways in which contemporary out-migration shapes livelihoods and landscapes in migrant-sending regions.

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Coronavirus and Immigration Detention in Europe: The Short Summer of Abolitionism?

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci10060226 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 226

Author(s):

José A. Brandariz ◽

Cristina Fernández-Bessa

Keyword(s):

Late Summer ◽

European Countries ◽

Immigration Enforcement ◽

Racial Justice ◽

Immigration Detention ◽

Migration Policies ◽

Potential Impact ◽

Detention Facilities ◽

Unexpected Consequences

In managing the coronavirus pandemic, national authorities worldwide have implemented significant re-bordering measures. This has even affected regions that had dismantled bordering practices decades ago, e.g., EU areas that lifted internal borders in 1993. In some national cases, these new arrangements had unexpected consequences in the field of immigration enforcement. A number of European jurisdictions released significant percentages of their immigration detention populations in spring 2020. The Spanish administration even decreed a moratorium on immigration detention and closed down all detention facilities from mid-spring to late summer 2020. The paper scrutinises these unprecedented changes by examining the variety of migration enforcement agendas adopted by European countries and the specific forces contributing to the prominent detention decline witnessed in the first months of the pandemic. Drawing on the Spanish case, the paper reflects on the potential impact of this promising precedent on the gradual consolidation of social and racial justice-based migration policies.

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Correction to: Interior Immigration Enforcement and Political Participation of U.S. Citizens in Mixed-Status Households

Demography ◽

10.1007/s13524-018-0663-x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 1583-1583

Author(s):

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes ◽

Mary J. Lopez

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Immigration Enforcement ◽

Mixed Status

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Financial and Educational Costs of the Residency Interview Process for Urology Applicants

Urology ◽

10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.102 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 71 (6) ◽

pp. 990-994 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

B. Price Kerfoot ◽

Kevin P. Asher ◽

David L. McCullough

Keyword(s):

Interview Process ◽

Educational Costs

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Racializing Crimmigration

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity ◽

10.1177/2332649216648714 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 82-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 71

Author(s):

Amada Armenta

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

The United States ◽

Immigration Enforcement ◽

Law Enforcement Agencies ◽

Local Law Enforcement ◽

Local Jail ◽

Colorblind Ideology ◽

Local Actors ◽

Local Law

Deporting “criminal aliens” has become the highest priority in American immigration enforcement. Today, most deportations are achieved through the “crimmigration” system, a term that describes the convergence of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Emerging research argues that U.S. immigration enforcement is a “racial project” that subordinates and racializes Latino residents in the United States. This article examines the role of local law enforcement agencies in the racialization process by focusing on the techniques and logics that drive law enforcement practices across two agencies, I argue that local law enforcement agents racialize Latinos by punishing illegality through their daily, and sometimes mundane, practices. Investigatory traffic stops put Latinos at disproportionate risk of arrest and citation, and processing at the local jail subjects unauthorized immigrants to deportation. Although a variety of local actors sustain the deportation system, most do not see themselves as active participants in immigrant removal and they explain their behavior through a colorblind ideology. This colorblind ideology obscures and naturalizes how organizational practices and laws converge to systematically criminalize and punish Latinos in the United States.

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