Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983–2013
Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983–2013
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监禁移民被拘留者：1983-2013 年县参与移民拘留的全国研究
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2020
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I. Peacock
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Emily Ryo;I. Peacock
数百个县监狱参与拘留面临驱逐程序的移民，这是一个民事程序。作为交换，当地监狱每天都能从移民和海关执法局获得补贴。因此，移民拘留是将刑事机构商品化用于民事监禁目的的一个引人注目的例子。然而，我们对参与这一安排的国家以及它们长期参与的预测因素所知甚少。我们的研究首次对县监狱的移民拘留进行了系统分析，使用了美国各地监狱的最新综合面板数据。首先，我们发现，在1983年至2013年期间，关押移民囚犯的县数量稳步增加，增幅最大的县集中在南部的中小规模、农村和共和党县。其次，我们的回归分析指出了县参与移民拘留的一些重要预测因素：(a)劳动力市场状况恶化，加上犯罪囚犯人口的床位空间增加，(b)拉丁裔人口增加到一定阈值水平，以及(c)共和党实力增强。这些发现对目前美国各地关于当地社区在拘留移民方面的适当作用的激烈辩论具有重要意义。
Hundreds of county jails are involved in detaining immigrants facing removal proceedings, a civil process. In exchange, local jails receive per diem payments from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration detention thus presents a striking case of commodification of penal institutions for civil confinement purposes. Yet we know very little about the counties participating in this arrangement and the predictors of their participation over time. Our study offers the first systematic analysis of immigration detention in county jails using new and comprehensive panel data on jails across the United States. First, we find that the number of counties confining immigrant detainees steadily increased between 1983 and 2013, with the largest growth concentrated in small to medium sized, rural, and Republican counties located in the South. Second, our regression analyses point to a number of significant predictors of county participation in immigration detention: (a) worsening labor market conditions, combined with growing excess bed space for the criminal inmate population, (b) an increasing Latino population up to a certain threshold level, and (c) increasing Republican Party strength. These findings have important implications for current debates raging across the United States about the proper role of local communities in detaining immigrants.