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

ISBN-13: 9781439912850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 236 str.

Anna Sampaio

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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."