1. Introduction: An Untimely Intervention on the U.S. Immigration Debate -- Puzzling Evidence: The Contradictions of Immigration Enforcement and the Politics of Immigration Policy -- Immigrants and State Power: On the Margins of the Law -- 2. A Different Kind of Immigration, a New Kind of Statelessness -- Almost Stateless: Migrant Marginality in an Era of "Nonimmigration" -- Policing Professional-Class Migrant Workers -- Racial-Ethnic Disparities and Nonimmigrant Flows -- Permutations of Statelessness -- 3. The Secret Life of the State -- On Necessity, Revolution, and the Modern State -- The Expansion of Executive Authority Under the Modern Presidency -- "Populist Rebellion" and the Neoliberal State -- Executive Authority, Globalization, and Immigration Policy -- Applying Executive Discretion to Immigration Enforcement -- 4. Concerned Citizens, Local Exclusions: Local Immigration Laws and the Legacy of Jim Crow -- Local Enforcement and Local Immigration Laws: The Policy Context -- Segregation or Coercive Integration? The Political Dynamics and Outcomes of Local Exclusionary Laws (incl. Farmingville) -- Interpreting the Law: Egalitarian Norms/Inegalitarian Practices -- Racial Disparities, Local Enforcement, and the Silence of the Law -- 5. Race, Nation, Immigration: Stranded at the Crossroads of Liberal Thought -- Beyond the Limits of the Law -- Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity Theory, and the Problem of Laissez-Faire Racism -- Unlikely Convergences: Liberal Multiculturalism and Cultural Conservatism -- Looking Beyond the Cultural Primordialist vs. Social Constructionist Divide -- The Immigrant as an Agent of Transformation -- A Nietzschean Critique of "Race Thinking" -- The Problem with Practicality -- Rethinking the Nation: A New American Dilemma -- 6. Conclusion: The Immigration Crucible -- Immigration Policy and Enforcement Under the Obama Administration -- Immigration Policy, National Identity, and the Limits of Executive Authority.
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In the debate over U.S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. While immigration control forces lobby for intensifying enforcement for reasons that are transparently connected to their policy agenda, and pro-immigration forces favor the liberalization of migrant flows and more fluid labor market regulation, these transformations, meant to grow global trade and commerce networks, also enlarge the extralegal (or marginally legal) discretionary powers of the state and encourage a more enforcement-heavy governing agenda. Philip.
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Emigration and immigration law-- United States-- History.
Immigrants-- Government policy-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Immigrants-- Government policy-- United States-- History-- 21st century.
Immigration enforcement-- United States.
Einwanderungspolitik
Emigration and immigration-- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration-- Political aspects.
Immigrants-- Government policy.
Immigration enforcement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Emigration & Immigration.
United States, Emigration and immigration, Government policy, History, 20th century.
United States, Emigration and immigration, Government policy, History, 21st century.
United States, Emigration and immigration, Political aspects.