“Awakening to a Nightmare”

The Specificity Principle in Acculturation Science

“…Referring to human beings as “illegal” may be offensive and dehumanizing as well as legally inaccurate: Under Title 8 immigration law, foreigners are only considered “immigrants” if granted an immigrant visa by a U.S. consul. Foreign nationals who are citizens of other countries are misnomered “immigrants.” Legal immigrants differ from the undocumented in level of education and occupational status as well as the psychological and personological turmoil the undocumented routinely face (Gonzales & Chavez, 2012; Hall & Greenman, 2015). In the United States, undocumented immigrants, even unaccompanied minors (a “humanitarian crisis” at more than 10,500 in just one month of 2015 in the words of the sitting U.S. President), are not entitled to a public defender in court (Nazario, 2013).…”

Ethical brokerage and self-fashioning in Italian immigration bureaucracy

“…In relation to immigration law, scholars have shown the way in which legal processes discipline subjects as "deportable" (De Genova 2002), create deep uncertainty in people's lives (Gonzales and Chavez 2012), or, paradoxically, produce individuals as cultural insiders (Tuckett 2015). In this article, I…”

The Spillover of US Immigration Policy on Citizens and Permanent Residents of Mexican Descent: How Internalizing “Illegality” Impacts Public Health in the Borderlands

“…Defined as “a positionality that imposes physical and emotional suffering on specific population groups and individuals in patterned ways,” structural vulnerability reproduces inequality by casting certain groups as less worthy of material and social protection (22). The subordinated status created through “illegality” may be internalized by Latino immigrant and migrants and detrimental on a biopsychological level (23–26). Farmworkers especially experience high levels of structural vulnerability due to their subordinate status in the social hierarchy (27).…”