Coercive Immigration Enforcement and Bureaucratic Ideology

Rodríguez, Néstor; Paredes, Cristian L.

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“…In the summer of 2018, the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy at the southern border separated thousands of asylum-seeking families. Actions like these remind us of the vast gap between the politico-bureaucratic logics of immigrant criminality and humanitarian character of the phenomena immigration agencies are managing (Rodriguez & Paredes, 2014). As is usually the case, the outrage against and support for the family separation policy was focused on the political elites who issued and defended it, with very little deliberation about the frontline enforcers who enacted it.…”

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“…The United States is part of an international trend where countries are managing migration as a crime and security issue (Bigo, 2002; Dowling & Inda, 2013; Menjivar & Kanstroom, 2013). Scholars have expertly documented the legal changes that criminalized immigration in the United States (Abrego, Coleman, Martínez, Menjívar, & Slack, 2017; Chacon, 2007; Stumpf, 2006), as well as the corresponding bureaucratic ideologies that the DHS deploys on a system level (Andreas, 2009; Dunn, 1996; Jones, 2014; Nevins, 2010; Rodriguez & Paredes, 2014). These macro-level changes affect the training and socialization of immigration agents, but connections to the cultural level have seldom been elaborated.…”

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Toward a Cultural Sociology of Immigration Control: A Call for Research

Vega

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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The criminalization of immigration has garnered a great deal of attention in the United States and abroad. Most research, however, examines the political and legal shifts that produced the contemporary system, as well as the implications of these shifts for immigrant communities. The cultural changes that have occurred for frontline immigration agents as an occupational group have not received the scrutiny they deserve. I argue that the control culture of immigration enforcers is a critical mechanism that stifles the viability of humanitarian-minded legal reforms in the U.S. immigration system. I call for a cultural sociology of immigration control work, with an emphasis on the perceptions, skills, and normative valuations of frontline immigration enforcers, and identify three specific areas for future research: (1) studying immigration enforcers as social control agents, (2) expanding analyses of immigration implementation beyond discretionary decision-making, and (3) disrupting the tendency to take the nation-state as the primary unit of analysis in migration studies. By pursuing this agenda on immigration agents’ work lives, we will better understand the rationalities that underlie their behaviors and shape immigration law in action.

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Section: Contextualizing Immigration Control Culture: the Department mentioning

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Toward a Cultural Sociology of Immigration Control: A Call for Research

Vega

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…These structured exclusions also manifest through unequal surveillance that permeates administrative realms. Administrative surveillance, or the formal and informal means by which subjects are watched, regulated, and policed through myriad permutations of administrative power, is racialized (Browne, ), gendered (Spade, ), and inflected by the boundaries of formal citizenship (Luibheid, ; Rodriguez & Parades, ; Rua, ). This reflects complex histories of marginalization and current manifestations of profiling that exclude some groups from social membership.…”

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The production of trans illegality: Cisnormativity in the U.S. immigration system

Collier

Daniel²

2019

Sociology Compass

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Drawing from critical scholarship on immigrant illegality and transgender studies, this paper examines how trans immigrants may be more prone to vulnerabilities in the U.S. immigration system. Cisnormativity, a hierarchical system of power that structures legal, administrative, and policing systems, produces the “hypervisibility” of gender variance. We add to migration scholarship by analyzing how cisnormativity can intersect with the production of immigrant illegalities and can render trans immigrants as hypervisible and, where possible, attend to the ways in which, paradoxically, trans subjectivity is also erased. Trans immigrants can be more susceptible to arrest, criminal prosecution, detention, deportation, blocked paths to citizenship, or adjustment of status. With trans studies' insights on the criminalization of gender variance and administrative documentation, we investigate the particularities of visibility for trans immigrants as they inform legalities and social exclusions. We end with a call for more empirical research on the experiences of trans immigrants and the complex inclusions and exclusions that structure U.S. immigration policy.

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“…A “threat narrative” emphasizing immigration-related ruptures to the fabric of American society diffused through the media during the past decade (Chavez 2014). This narrative permeated the everyday lives of Mexicans, a group portrayed as overburdening the health care system (Rodriguez and Paredes 2014). In so doing, it undergirded efforts to identify and deport the undocumented.…”

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Legal Status and Health Care: Mexican-Origin Children in California, 2001–2014

Oropesa

Landale

Hillemeier

2016

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Using restricted data from the 2001–2014 California Health Interview Surveys, this research illuminates the role of legal status in health care among Mexican-origin children. The first objective is to provide a population-level overview of trends in health care access and utilization, along with the legal statuses of parents and children. The second objective is to examine the nature of associations between children’s health care and legal status over time. We identify specific status-based distinctions that matter and investigate how their importance is changing. Despite the continuing significance of child nativity for health care, the descriptive analysis shows that the proportion of Mexican-origin children who are foreign born is declining. This trend suggests a potentially greater role of parental legal status in children’s health care. Logistic regression analyses demonstrate that the importance of parental legal status varies with the health care indicator examined and the inclusion of child nativity in models. Moreover, variation in some aspects of children’s health care coalesced more around parents’ citizenship than documentation status in the past. With one exception, the salience of such distinctions has dissipated over time.

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Coercive Immigration Enforcement and Bureaucratic Ideology

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Toward a Cultural Sociology of Immigration Control: A Call for Research

Toward a Cultural Sociology of Immigration Control: A Call for Research

The production of trans illegality: Cisnormativity in the U.S. immigration system

Legal Status and Health Care: Mexican-Origin Children in California, 2001–2014

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