Racing and gendering immigration politics: analyzing contemporary immigration enforcement using intersectional analysis

Sampaio, Anna

doi:10.1080/21565503.2014.909319

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“…How do gendered and systemic factors affect the mental health of US Latina/os during the COVID-19 pandemic? To analyze this question, we use an intersectional approach that highlights the unique and longstanding challenges that Latina/os have experienced in the United States, focusing on gender and their connections to immigration [ 23 , 24 ]. Intersectionality is a paradigm that helps us understand the diversity and complexity of lives within groups, and their implications on multiple outcomes, including the physical and mental health of minority groups [ 25 , 26 ].…”

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Immigration and Gender as Social Determinants of Mental Health during the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Case of US Latina/os

Gómez-Aguiñaga

Dominguez

Manzano³

2021

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While men and women make up a similar number of COVID-19 cases, and are equally likely to know someone who has become ill due to the virus, the gendered and systemic implications of immigration during public health emergencies among minority groups in the United States are empirically underexplored. Using the SOMOS COVID-19 Crisis National Latino Survey, we conduct a series of intersectional analyses to understand the extent to which personal experiences with COVID-19, gendered structural factors, and spillover effects of US immigration policies impact the mental health of US Latina/os during a public health emergency. The results show that among Latinas, knowing an undocumented immigrant and someone ill with COVID-19 increases the probability of reporting worse mental outcomes by 52 percent. Furthermore, being a woman increases the probability of reporting the highest level of mental health problems by 30 percent among Hispanic people who know someone with COVID-19 and an undocumented immigrant. These findings indicate that the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak among US Latinas and Latinos are entrenched in gendered and systemic inequalities.

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Immigration and Gender as Social Determinants of Mental Health during the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Case of US Latina/os

Gómez-Aguiñaga

Dominguez

Manzano³

2021

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“…Analyses of the post-9/11 immigration enforcement apparatus by Sampaio (2014Sampaio ( , 2015 revealed how immigration policies devised for waging the "War on Terror" ultimately served to terrorize Latinx workers and families. Sampaio's (2014) intersectional analysis adeptly showed how configurations of race and gender in immigration legislation and elite discourse rationalized the use of punitive immigration enforcement actions against Latinxs.…”

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Raids at Work: Latinx Immigrant Labor Precarity and the Spectacle of ICE Worksite Enforcement Raids

Corral

2023

Political Research Quarterly

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Why does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conduct worksite raids when employers are rarely ever charged with hiring undocumented immigrant workers? This article shows how exploitative labor conditions and ICE worksite enforcement raids exist in a mutually reinforcing feedback loop that (re)produces precarity for undocumented workers. Analysis of interviews from the Immigrant Workers Project (IWP) Survey of 2018, a community-based participatory action research project in Northeast Ohio, reveals that individuals directly and indirectly impacted by ICE worksite raids understand and experience these operations within the broader context of anti-immigrant labor discrimination and worker exploitation. Although previous scholarship has theorized the role of “spectacle” in various aspects of immigration enforcement a critical analysis of media coverage, public records, and government documents shows how government agencies and the media choreograph worksite raids for maximum public spectacle. The underlying logics of this immigration enforcement tactic highlight how undocumented immigrant workers exist simultaneously as individuals whose labor is deregulated but whose presence is hyper-regulated.

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“…Debilitation also amplifies the precariousness imposed by deportability (perpetual vulnerability to deportation). Deportability is central to undocumented people’s lived experiences of fear, instability, rightlessness, exclusion, militarized policing, indefinite detention, and gendered violence (De Genova 2004; Sampaio 2014). Jill Harrison and Sarah Lloyd (2012) add that deportability augments exploitation of undocumented and legal workers alike.…”

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“…As Daniel Kanstroom (2000) argues, deportation functions as punishment because it is routinely included alongside criminal penalties, even for minor crimes. Using deportation to purge criminality from the body politic exacerbates deportability’s racialized and gendered harms (Kanstroom 2000; Sampaio 2014; Valdez 2016).…”

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At the Borders of the Body Politic: Fetal Citizens, Pregnant Migrants, and Reproductive Injustices in Immigration Detention

Leach

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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To analyze intersecting power relations in reproductive and immigration politics, I examine Garza v. Hargan (an appellate case regarding unaccompanied immigrant minors’ abortion rights) alongside systemic injustices in immigration detention (e.g., exposure to miscarriage risks, coerced sterilization, shackling). These injustices, I argue, emerge from conflicts and compromises over fetal citizenship within the American radical right. Although pro-life and anti-immigrant discourses assume opposing logics of citizenship, respectively interpreting immigrants’ fetuses as “fetal citizens” or “anchor babies,” these contradictions are neutralized by two techniques. Debilitation (systematic degradation of a disposable population) enables the appearance of fetal protection to coexist with de facto exposure to death, injury, and risk. Paralegality (quasi-legal policy making by enforcement agents) allows situational shifts in the meaning of fetal citizenship and adjustments to the pro-life/anti-immigrant compromise. Both obscure culpability for reproductive injustice, reinforce interlocking oppressions, and control women’s bodies in order to control the body politic’s demographic future.

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Racing and gendering immigration politics: analyzing contemporary immigration enforcement using intersectional analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Immigration and Gender as Social Determinants of Mental Health during the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Case of US Latina/os

Immigration and Gender as Social Determinants of Mental Health during the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Case of US Latina/os

Raids at Work: Latinx Immigrant Labor Precarity and the Spectacle of ICE Worksite Enforcement Raids

At the Borders of the Body Politic: Fetal Citizens, Pregnant Migrants, and Reproductive Injustices in Immigration Detention

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