Sovereignty, Security and Race : Role of the Counter-Public Sphere in Immigration Exclusion

在这个项目的第一年，我探索了19世纪后期美国的中国移民是如何被构成对国家安全的“威胁”，以及针对他们制定的一系列排他法律。移民证券化和移民反证券化运动的失败，可以放在美国扩张主义导致的联邦主权与州主权竞争的背景下理解。第二年，我将研究范围从时间段、群体、地区等方面进行了拓展。我研究了来自拉丁美洲的非法移民如何被建构为对美国及其人民的“威胁”，以及现在正在发生的反证券化运动。

In the first year of this project, I explored how Chinese migrants in the late-nineteenth-century America were constituted as a"threat"to security of the nation and the series of exclusion laws that were enacted against them. The securitization of migration and the failed counter-securitization movement by migrants can be understood in the context of the competition between federal sovereignty and state sovereignty, which took place because of American expansionism.In the second year, I expanded the scope of my research in terms of time period, group and regions. I examined how undocumented immigrants from Latin America are constructed as a"threat"to the United States and its people, and the counter-securitization movements taking place now.