Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Policy Post-9/11

by Anna Sampaio

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439912867
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Anna Sampaio is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at Santa Clara University and co-editor (with Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez) of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, Cultures.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements 

1. Reconfiguring Race and Gender in the War on Terrorism 

2. Masculinist Protectionism, Racialized Demonization and the Formation of the Contemporary Security Regime in the War on Terrorism

3. Racialization of Latinas/os within American Immigration Policy 

4. Securitizing Immigration Legislation 

5. Terrorizing Immigrants: The Return of Large Scale Raids 

and Roundups and their Impact on Latina/o Communities

6. Race-Gendering Citizenship and the New Security State 

7. The End of Terror? A New Administration and a New 

Chapter in Immigration Politics

Index

Editorial Reviews

"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 about the fragility of constitutional rights when Congress, the executive branch, and the courts concur that the nation’s highest priority is security. This comprehensive empirical study sheds new light on the complex integration of immigration and securitization policies in the aftermath of September 11." 
—Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

"Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants is a wonderful addition to the literature on the social constructions of policy target populations. The sophisticated command of both case law and national and state policy is particularly helpful in understanding the complex trends in U.S. immigration policy in recent decades. Sampaio clearly and convincingly articulates her argument on the impact of federal-level anti-terror policies on the everyday experiences of Latinas/os, and her identification of a racialized/gendered set of discursive moves in the years surrounding 9/11 is especially strong."
—Ange-Marie Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Southern California

 

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