Demanding to Be Seen and Heard: Latino Immigrant Organizing and the Defense of Human Rights in Houston

Kovic, Christine

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“…The politics of crimmigration suggest that the government is faced with tensions between the economic demands for cheaper immigrant labor and social pressures to restrict the massive influx of minority populations (Calavita, 1989). The recent rallying efforts to dismantle the crimmigration apparatus and reform immigration law and policy, as well as the growing number of "sanctuary cities" (e.g., San Francisco, Austin), indicate that the penal field of immigration control is in flux, continuously changing in "an agonistic perspective," with a tendency to tilt toward the side of the powerful (Goodman, Page, & Phelps, 2015;Kovic, 2014). Reconfiguration and reorientation are influenced by power structures (e.g., which political party dominates and how it is ideologically framed 5 ; Hopkins, 2010), resources and capacities of players involved (e.g., whether there is a network of anti-immigrant or pro-immigrant coalitions), and economic conditions (e.g., whether economic recession or recovery and the level of economic inequality; J. M. Chavez & Provine, 2009;Cornfield, 2013).…”

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Immigrants as Symbolic Assailants

Jiang

Erez

2017

International Criminal Justice Review

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Despite little evidence of an immigration-crime nexus, many American jurisdictions have adopted a punitive approach to undocumented immigrants and an increasingly restrictive and exclusive system of immigration control. The extensive deployment of criminal justice measures to address the immigration “problem” led to the growth of a crimmigration apparatus—a mesh of immigration and criminal justice systems. Drawing on extant literature and applying the framework of the penal field, the article examines the social dynamics, processes, and consequences of crimmigration. It is argued that the portrayal of immigrants as “symbolic assailants” has facilitated the creation and operation of crimmigration under the guise of crime prevention rather than for addressing terrorism and national security—the presumed purpose of utilizing crimmigration practices. The current configuration of crimmigration across the United States is the interactive product of minority threat, partisan politics, and federalism of the American government system, which have jointly formed a “multilayered patchwork” of immigration control. The article first outlines the analytical framework; reviews the social construction of immigrant “criminality”; and describes the punitive and exclusive laws, policies, and enforcement practices established as responses to this “threat.” The dilemmas, contradictions, and contestations associated with crimmigration, including collateral impacts on immigrants, their families and communities, and the criminal justice system, are analyzed; and policy implications are drawn and discussed.

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Immigrants as Symbolic Assailants

Jiang

Erez

2017

International Criminal Justice Review

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“…The organization was founded in response to a policy decision of the Harris County Hospital District to stop providing necessary medical supplies and equipment to people with disabilities who were non-Medicaid eligible. 29,30 Supplies such as catheters, diapers, and sterile gloves are expensive, required daily, and a necessity for survival. For the past 17 years, Living Hope members have collected and distributed medical supplies and equipment monthly and provided transportation support with and for people with SCI.…”

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The Intersectional Impact of Disability and Immigration on Health: A Health Needs Assessment of Immigrants Living With Spinal Cord Injury in Houston, Texas

Celeste-Villalvir

Kovic

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2023

Community Health Equity Research & Policy

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Background Immigrants with spinal cord injury (SCI) experience challenges with co-morbidities and lack of access to medical supplies and equipment. Much of the current disability and SCI literature does not include Latinx immigrants with SCI. To address this gap in knowledge, the present study explores the intersectional impact of disability and immigration on health as well as the health status and health needs of immigrants living with SCI. Methods This community-partnered study is a secondary analysis of needs assessment data collected in February 2019 with 24 of the members of Living Hope Wheelchair Association, a nonprofit organization serving Latinx immigrants living with SCI in Houston, Texas. Results Participants shared challenges with accessing healthcare, comorbidities, mental illness, transportation, and discrimination by healthcare professionals. They also shared difficulties accessing medical supplies, medical equipment, and the need for adaptations in their homes and vehicles. Conclusion The findings corroborate those of previous studies with people with SCI, but highlights additional layers of marginalization and challenges faced by immigrants living with SCI. More research is needed to understand the health needs and health status of this population, including their access to care and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Findings support the need for public health and immigration policies to promote inclusion and equitable access to services as well as improve the health and quality of life of immigrants.

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“…2 See Akgunduz 2008;Bacas 2013;Chin 2007;Cohen and Sirkeci 2011; d'Appolonia 2012; Dowling and Inda 2013;Feldman 2012; Foner, Ruben and Gold 2004; Gingrich and Banks 2006;Glick-Schiller and Caglar 2011;Goldin, Cameron and Balarazan 2011;Jandl et al 2008;Kovic 2014;Lahav 2004;McKay et al 2011;Money 1999;Modood and Werbner 1997;Saskia 1998 Saskia , 1999Semyonov and Reijman 2006.…”

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Newcomers at the Israeli National Table: Transforming Urban Landscapes and the Texture of Citizenship

Shokeid

2015

City & Society

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Advocating research of the "ethnographic present," the article portrays the recent evolvement of two constituencies in Israeli urban society conceived as new socioeconomic-cultural and spatial social "banks": Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia residing in ethnically segregated urban neighborhoods; the gradual concentration in Tel Aviv's downtown neighborhoods of authorized and undocumented labor migrants from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. It reports on the growing protest by local Israeli residents, the government's efforts to limit the presence of "uninvited strangers," as well as the active response of the unwelcome aliens. I posit that the emergence of these new ethnic enclaves converges with other critical changes in Israeli institutional life. Major transformations in the texture and tenets of Israeli citizenry, its spatial construction and national identity are steadily progressing. [labor migrants, refugees, ethnic enclaves, Tel Aviv, Israel]

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Demanding to Be Seen and Heard: Latino Immigrant Organizing and the Defense of Human Rights in Houston

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

Immigrants as Symbolic Assailants

Immigrants as Symbolic Assailants

The Intersectional Impact of Disability and Immigration on Health: A Health Needs Assessment of Immigrants Living With Spinal Cord Injury in Houston, Texas

Newcomers at the Israeli National Table: Transforming Urban Landscapes and the Texture of Citizenship

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