Terrorizing Latina/O Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Policy Post-9/11

by Sampaio, Anna
ISBN: 9781439912867
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Overview

Immigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy.

Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics.

Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting Latinas/os. Her book concludes with an examination of immigration reform under the Obama administration, contrasting the promise of hope and change with the reality of increased detentions, deportations, and continued marginalization.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Sampaio, Anna
  • ISBN: 9781439912867
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 236
  • Publication Year: 2015
Language: English