Governing immigration through crime [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by Julie A. Dowling and Jonathan Xavier Inda.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : governing migrant illegality / Jonathan Xavier Inda and Julie A. Dowling -- The legal production of Mexican/migrant "illegality" / Nicholas De Genova -- The crimmigration crisis : immigrants, crime, and sovereign power / Juliet P. Stumpf -- The security myth : punishing immigrants in the name of national security / Jennifer M. Chacón -- Constructing a virtual wall : race and citizenship in U.S.-Mexico border policing / Josiah McC. Heyman -- Spectacle in the desert : the Minuteman Project on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Leo R. Chavez -- Bare life : border-crossing deaths and spaces of moral alibi / Roxanne Lynn Doty -- The rise and fall of employer sanctions / David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing -- Arizona's SB 1070 : setting conditions for violations of human rights here and beyond / Rogelio Sáenz, Cecilia Menjívar, and San Juanita Edilia García -- Immigration as local politics : re-bordering immigration through deterrence and incapacitation / Liette Gilbert -- Pursuant to deportation : Latinos and immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández -- "¿Quien sabe?" : deportation and temporality among transnational Mexicans / Deborah A. Boehm -- Exiled by law : deportation and the inviability of life / Susan Bibler Coutin -- (Re)bordering the civic imaginary : rhetoric, hybridity, and citizenship in La Gran Marcha / Josue David Cisneros -- Left out but not shut down : political activism and the undocumented student movement / Roberto G. Gonzales -- From border control to border care : the political and ethical potential of surveillance / James P. Walsh.

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