"Crimmigration": race, and Critical Race Theory in the United States
This chapter explores the relationship between U.S. scholarship on the criminalization of migration and Critical Race Theory (CRT). The chapter explains the role that scholars working in the CRT tradition played in laying the groundwork for U.S. “crimmigration” scholarship. The chapter then applies...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Handbook on border criminology
Year: 2024, Pages: 41-56 |
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| Summary: | This chapter explores the relationship between U.S. scholarship on the criminalization of migration and Critical Race Theory (CRT). The chapter explains the role that scholars working in the CRT tradition played in laying the groundwork for U.S. “crimmigration” scholarship. The chapter then applies a CRT critique, demonstrating how the general shortcomings of U.S. antidiscrimination laws both manifest in, and are amplified by, immigration law. Finally, the chapter analyzes a specific, recent failure of U.S. antidiscrimination principles in the realm of criminalized migration: namely, the failed equal protection challenges to 8 U.S.C. § 1326. The chapter thus explicates how historical patterns of racial subordination are embedded in the structure of immigration law, and reveals how courts have facilitated this subordination by addressing discrimination claims with legal tools incapable of identifying and uprooting invidious racial discrimination. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 53-56 |
| ISBN: | 9781035307975 |
