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The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Philip Kretsedemas
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Description for The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 line drawings, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNDA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
In the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. Philip Kretsedemas examines this development from several different perspectives, exploring recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal state power over the course of the twentieth century, and discourses on race, nation, and cultural difference that have influenced politics and academia. He also analyzes the recent expansion of local immigration law and explains how forms of extralegal discretionary authority have become more prevalent in federal immigration policy, making the dispersion of local immigration laws possible. While connecting such ... Read more
In the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. Philip Kretsedemas examines this development from several different perspectives, exploring recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal state power over the course of the twentieth century, and discourses on race, nation, and cultural difference that have influenced politics and academia. He also analyzes the recent expansion of local immigration law and explains how forms of extralegal discretionary authority have become more prevalent in federal immigration policy, making the dispersion of local immigration laws possible. While connecting such ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157605
SKU
V9780231157605
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About Philip Kretsedemas
Philip Kretsedemas is associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the coeditor of Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today and Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy.
Reviews for The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
This book recovers the complexity of immigration and government efforts to govern it. One of the most exciting and well-written books on the subject.
Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages An ambitious and sophisticated account of how U.S. law treats the most vulnerable among us.
David Cole, author of Enemy Aliens: Double ... Read more
Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages An ambitious and sophisticated account of how U.S. law treats the most vulnerable among us.
David Cole, author of Enemy Aliens: Double ... Read more