Handcuffs and Chain Link
Subtitle: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jul 25, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813941325
Description: "Handcuffs and Chain Link enters the immigration debate by addressing one of its most controversial aspects: the criminalization both of extralegal immigration to the United States and of immigrants themselves in popular and political discourse. Looking at the factors that led up to criminalization, Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien points to the alternative approach of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and how its ultimate demise served to negatively reinforce the fictitious association of extralegal immigrants with criminality"--Publisher's website
Notes: Source title: Handcuffs and Chain Link: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America (Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)