Doris Marie Provine & Monica Varsanyi - Policing Immigrants - John Jay Research Book Talk
Channel: John Jay Research
Date: 2018-01-08

Publisher site: http://bit.ly/2vL7dc8
Provine bio: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/376925
Varsanyi bio: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/monica-w-varsanyi

University of Arizona Emerita Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry Doris Marie Provine and John Jay College Professor of Political Science Monica Varsanyi present a talk based on their 2016 book (co-authored with Paul Lewis and Scott Decker) "Policing Immigrants: Law Enforcement on the Front Lines" at John Jay College on October 30th, 2017.

"Policing Immigrants" traces the transition of immigration enforcement from a traditionally federal power exercised primarily near the US borders to a patchwork system of local policing that extends throughout the country's interior. The response of localities to the task of enforcing federal immigration law can best be predicted not by conditions like crime rates or the state of the local economy, but by the level of conservatism among local voters.

Doris Marie Provine is Professor Emerita of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. She is the author of "Unequal Under Law: Race and The War on Drugs" (2007). Dr. Provine's current work traces the evolution of racialized borders with a focus on Arizona.

Monica Varsanyi is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her current research includes a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project that explores the contentious evolution of Hispanic identity in New Mexico during the Chicano Period of 1963 through 1972.