Community and labor relations: the INS plays the “good cop”

Part of a special issue on immigration and boundary policing in an era of globalization. The writer discusses the attitude of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to community and labor relations, particularly in respect to illegal Mexican migrants. She argues that a new “interior enforc...

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Main Author: Khokha, Sasha (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2001
In: Social justice
Year: 2001, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-95
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
United States. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Border patrols
Undocumented immigrants > United States
UNDOCUMENTED immigrants
Foreign workers > United States
United States > Emigration & immigration > Government policy
Industrial relations > United States
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Summary:Part of a special issue on immigration and boundary policing in an era of globalization. The writer discusses the attitude of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to community and labor relations, particularly in respect to illegal Mexican migrants. She argues that a new “interior enforcement strategy” introduced by the INS in March 1999 is guaranteed to result in racial tensions, because it asks communities to explicitly relate economic and racial issues to the “problem” of immigration.
ISSN:2327-641X