Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants
Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants
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DOI：
10.1086/663575
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Abrego, Leisy J.
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作者：
Menjivar, Cecilia;Abrego, Leisy J.
本文分析了中美洲移民在脆弱的法律的地位如何体验现行的移民法。基于人种学观察和超过200访谈进行了1998年至2010年之间的移民在洛杉矶和凤凰城和个人在发送社区，这项研究揭示了如何融合和实施移民和刑法构成的暴力形式。借鉴结构性暴力和象征性暴力的理论，作者使用“法律的暴力”这一分析范畴来捕捉法律的正常化但累积的伤害性影响。分析的重点是三个中心和相互关联的领域移民的生活-工作，家庭和学校-暴露如何在联邦，州和地方各级移民的刑事定罪不仅是排他性的，但也产生暴力影响的个人移民及其家庭，影响日常生活和长期的融入过程。
This article analyzes how Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws. Based on ethnographic observations and over 200 interviews conducted between 1998 and 2010 with immigrants in Los Angeles and Phoenix and individuals in sending communities, this study reveals how the convergence and implementation of immigration and criminal law constitute forms of violence. Drawing on theories of structural and symbolic violence, the authors use the analytic category "legal violence" to capture the normalized but cumulatively injurious effects of the law. The analysis focuses on three central and interrelated areas of immigrants' lives-work, family, and school-to expose how the criminalization of immigrants at the federal, state, and local levels is not only exclusionary but also generates violent effects for individual immigrants and their families, affecting everyday lives and long-term incorporation processes.