
Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants
Race, Gender, and Immigration Policy Post-9/11
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Reconfiguring Race and Gender in the War on Terrorism
- 2. Masculinist Protectionism, Racialized Demonization, and the Formation of the Contemporary Security Regime
- 3. Racialization of Latinas/os within American Immigration Law and Policy
- 4. Securitizing Immigration Legislation
- 5. Terrorizing Immigrants: The Return of Large-Scale Raids and Roundups and Their Impact on Latina/o Communities
- 6. Security and Citizenship: "Enemy Combatants" and the Cases of John Walker Lindh, Yaser Hamdi, and Jose Padilla
- 7. The End of Terror? A New Administration and a New Chapter in Immigration Politics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index