Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults. Issue 1 (January 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults. Issue 1 (January 2015)
- Main Title:
- Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults
- Authors:
- Aranda, Elizabeth
Vaquera, Elizabeth - Abstract:
- The current immigration enforcement regime embodies a colorblind racial project of the state rooted in the racial structure of society and resulting in racism toward immigrants. Approaching racism from structural and social process perspectives, we seek to understand the social consequences of enforcement practices in the lives of undocumented immigrant young adults who moved to the United States as minors. Findings indicate that although legal discourse regarding immigration enforcement theoretically purports colorblindness, racial practices such as profiling subject immigrants to arrest, detention, and deportation and, in effect, criminalize them. Further, enforcement practices produce distress, vulnerability, and anxiety in the lives of young immigrants and their families, often resulting in legitimate fears of detention and deportation since enforcement measures disproportionately affect Latinos and other racialized immigrant groups in U.S. society. We conclude that policies and programs that exclude, segregate, detain, and physically remove immigrants from the country reproduce racial inequalities in other areas of social life through spillover effects that result in dire consequences for these immigrants and their kin. We argue that immigrant enforcement practices reflect the nation's racial policy of our times.
- Is Part Of:
- Sociology of race & ethnicity. Volume 1:Issue 1(2015)
- Journal:
- Sociology of race & ethnicity
- Issue:
- Volume 1:Issue 1(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 1, Issue 1 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0001-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 88
- Page End:
- 104
- Publication Date:
- 2015-01
- Subjects:
- racism -- immigration enforcement -- racial inequality -- undocumented immigrants -- deportations and detention
Minorities -- United States -- Periodicals
Race relations -- United States -- Periodicals
Racism -- United States -- Periodicals
Ethnicity -- United States -- Periodicals
Ethnicity
Racism
Race relations
Minorities
United States
Periodicals
305.80097305 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SRE/current ↗
http://sre.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.damaraintl.com/apc ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/2332649214551097 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2332-6492
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