Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention

Matthew B. Flynn, Michael J. Flynn

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Abstract

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.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationImmigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
StatePublished - Jan 1 2018

Keywords

  • Border Control
  • Criminology
  • Detention
  • Immigration
  • Social Sciences
  • Social work

DC Disciplines

  • Political Science

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