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9%OFFAnna Sampaio - Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants - 9781439912867 - V9781439912867
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Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants

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Description for Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFN; JFSJ5; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439912867
SKU
V9781439912867
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About Anna Sampaio
Anna Sampaio is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at Santa Clara University and co-editor (with Carlos Velez-Ibanez) of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, Cultures.

Reviews for Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants
"Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants makes a compelling case that government policies are thoroughly implicated in processes of racialization and gendering that mark some citizens as worthy of protection and others as dangerous threats to national security. In showing how recent immigration and securitization policies blur the boundaries between citizens and immigrants, and between immigrants and terrorist threats, Sampaio provides powerful lessons ... Read more

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