TY - JOUR
T1 - The criminalization of immigrants as a racial project
AU - Provine, Doris Marie
AU - Doty, Roxanne
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - Contemporary policy responses to unauthorized immigration, we argue, reinforce racialized anxieties by (a) focusing attention on physically distinctive and economically marginalized minorities who are defined as the nation's immigration"threat," (b) creating new spaces of enforcement within which racial anxieties flourish and become institutionalized; and thereby (c) racializing immigrant bodies. We examine three federal enforcement policies: (a) the physical border buildup that began in the 1990s, (b) partnerships with local police, and (c) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiatives to enhance interior enforcement. The result has been the construction of a landscape of institutionalized racial violence embedded in our current immigration regime.
AB - Contemporary policy responses to unauthorized immigration, we argue, reinforce racialized anxieties by (a) focusing attention on physically distinctive and economically marginalized minorities who are defined as the nation's immigration"threat," (b) creating new spaces of enforcement within which racial anxieties flourish and become institutionalized; and thereby (c) racializing immigrant bodies. We examine three federal enforcement policies: (a) the physical border buildup that began in the 1990s, (b) partnerships with local police, and (c) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiatives to enhance interior enforcement. The result has been the construction of a landscape of institutionalized racial violence embedded in our current immigration regime.
KW - criminalization
KW - immigration enforcement
KW - racial profiling
KW - racialization
KW - unauthorized immigrants
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U2 - 10.1177/1043986211412559
DO - 10.1177/1043986211412559
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960633362
SN - 1043-9862
VL - 27
SP - 261
EP - 277
JO - Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
JF - Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
IS - 3
ER -