Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
“Punishing Immigrantscompellingly develops a new paradigm for understanding the role that punitive social control plays on marginalized immigrant populations.  The authors develop a new paradigm--one that allows us to understand how crime control has become a primary mechanism for regulating immigration and vulnerable immigrant populations.  This project brilliantly humanizes the lives of immigrant populations while rigorously addressing structural processes responsible for the breakup of families, the criminalization of children, and the dehumanization of entire populations.”-Victor M. Rios,author ofPunished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"Contrary to public opinion, immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans, yet after 9/11 and in the midst of a stagnant economy, new anti-immigrant laws have emerged that have brutal consequences for unauthorized immigrants and manifold unanticipated consequences for U.S. citizens, particularly Latinos. Punishing Immigrantsbrings these anticipated and unanticipated consequences to the fore, and vividly illustrates the ‘layered realities’ of immigrants’ lives at a time when social control and immigration is near an all-time high."-Jennifer Lee,co-author ofThe Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century America