Terrorizing Latina/o immigrants
Subtitle: race, gender, and immigration politics in the age of security
By: Anna Sampaio
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781439912867; 9781439912850
Subjects: Social conditions; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Government policy; Emigration and immigration; Hispanic Americans; History
Other titles: Terrorizing Latina immigrants; Terrorizing Latino immigrants
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconfiguring race and gender in the war on terrorism; title: Masculinist protectionism, racialized demonization, and the formation of the contemporary security regime; title: Racialization of Latinas/os within American immigration law and policy; title: Securitizing immigration legislation; title: Terrorizing immigrants : the return of large-scale raids and roundups and their impact on Latina/o communities; title: Security and citizenship : "enemy combatants" and the cases of John Walker Lindh, Yaser Hamdi, and José Padilla; title: The end of terror? : a new administration and a new chapter in immigration politics.