The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. In this book, sociologists David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to reconsider the immigration policies of the Obama era and beyond in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at current issues surrounding immigration in the U.S. and abroad. It examines key features of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration enforcement. Contributors document the continuities between presidential administrations and across countries from many perspectives, with chapters discussing Canada, Australia, France, the UK, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in addition to the U.S. They offer macro-level analyses of deportations and border enforcement, analyses of national policy and jurisprudence, and ethnographic accounts of the daily life experience of the prison-to-deportation pipeline, the making of deportability, and post-deportation transitions for noncitizens. This book highlights new directions in critical immigration policy and enforcement and deportation studies with the aim of problematizing the age of punishment that currently reigns over borders and those who seek to cross them.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David Brotherton
- I. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations
- 2. Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Bolash-Goza
- 3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon
- 4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson
- 5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter
- 6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn
- 7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An analysis of US Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip Kretsedemas
- II. Producing Deportable Subjects
- 8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh
- 9. Banished Yet Un-Deported: The Constitution of a ‘Floating Population’ of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Boe
- 10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro
- 11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París and Gabriel Pérez Duperou
- 12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement,, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
- 13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar
- 14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee
- 15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda Martin
- Contributors
- Index
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