Legal Passing - Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29674-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. García compares restrictive and accommodating immigration measures in various cities and states to show that place-based inclusion and exclusion unfold in seemingly contradictory ways. Instead of fleeing restrictive localities, undocumented Mexicans react by presenting themselves as “legal,” masking the stigma of illegality to avoid local police and federal immigration enforcement. Restrictive laws coerce assimilation, because as legal passing becomes habitual and embodied, immigrants distance themselves from their ethnic and cultural identities. In accommodating destinations, undocumented Mexicans experience a localized sense of stability and membership that is simultaneously undercut by the threat of federal immigration enforcement and complex street-level tensions with local police. Combining social theory on immigration and race as well as place and law, Legal Passing uncovers the everyday failures and long-term human consequences of contemporary immigration laws in the US.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garcia, Angela S.

García, Angela S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. The Place of Law: Subnational Immigration
Laws in an Age of Mass Deportation

2. Undocumented and Unwelcome? California’s
Shifting Immigration Laws

3. Stay or Go? The Settlement Effects of
Restrictive Subnational Laws

4. Everyday Anxiety: Devolution, Deportability,
and the Police

5. Legal Passing: Changing Bodies,
Behaviors, and Minds

6. Passing Down Legal Passing: The Diffusion of
Exclusionary Logics

7. Lessons of the Law: Subnational Immigration
Laws in the Trump Era

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Angela S. García is a sociologist and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.