Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults
Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults
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DOI：
10.1177/2332649214551097
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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3
通讯作者：
Vaquera, Elizabeth
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作者：
Aranda, Elizabeth;Vaquera, Elizabeth
目前的移民执法制度体现了一个植根于社会种族结构的国家色盲种族项目，导致对移民的种族主义。从结构和社会过程的角度接近种族主义，我们试图了解执法实践中的无证移民年轻人谁搬到美国作为未成年人的生活的社会后果。调查结果表明，尽管有关移民执法的法律的话语理论上声称是色盲，但种族歧视等种族做法使移民受到逮捕、拘留和驱逐出境，实际上将他们定为犯罪。此外，执法措施在年轻移民及其家庭的生活中产生了痛苦，脆弱性和焦虑，往往导致对拘留和驱逐出境的合理恐惧，因为执法措施不成比例地影响拉丁美洲人和美国社会中的其他种族化移民群体。我们的结论是，政策和计划，排除，隔离，拘留，并从该国实际上删除移民复制种族不平等在社会生活的其他领域通过溢出效应，导致这些移民及其亲属的可怕后果。我们认为，移民执法的做法反映了我们这个时代的国家的种族政策。
The current immigration enforcement regime embodies a colorblind racial project of the state rooted in the racial structure of society and resulting in racism toward immigrants. Approaching racism from structural and social process perspectives, we seek to understand the social consequences of enforcement practices in the lives of undocumented immigrant young adults who moved to the United States as minors. Findings indicate that although legal discourse regarding immigration enforcement theoretically purports colorblindness, racial practices such as profiling subject immigrants to arrest, detention, and deportation and, in effect, criminalize them. Further, enforcement practices produce distress, vulnerability, and anxiety in the lives of young immigrants and their families, often resulting in legitimate fears of detention and deportation since enforcement measures disproportionately affect Latinos and other racialized immigrant groups in U.S. society. We conclude that policies and programs that exclude, segregate, detain, and physically remove immigrants from the country reproduce racial inequalities in other areas of social life through spillover effects that result in dire consequences for these immigrants and their kin. We argue that immigrant enforcement practices reflect the nation's racial policy of our times.