Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment : Detention, Deportation, and Border Control

This book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.” The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. In this book, sociologists David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to reconsider the immigration policies of the Obama era and beyond in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”

Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishmenttakes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at current issues surrounding immigration in the U.S. and abroad. It examines key features of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration enforcement. Contributors document the continuities between presidential administrations and across countries from many perspectives, with chapters discussing Canada, Australia, France, the UK, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in addition to the U.S. They offer macro-level analyses of deportations and border enforcement, analyses of national policy and jurisprudence, and ethnographic accounts of the daily life experience of the prison-to-deportation pipeline, the making of deportability, and post-deportation transitions for noncitizens. This book highlights new directions in critical immigration policy and enforcement and deportation studies with the aim of problematizing the age of punishment that currently reigns over borders and those who seek to cross them. The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump's administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. In this book, sociologists David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to reconsider the immigration policies of the Obama era and beyond in terms of a decades-long "age of punishment." Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at current issues surrounding immigration in the U.S. and abroad. It examines key features of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration enforcement. Contributors document the continuities between presidential administrations and across countries from many perspectives, with chapters discussing Canada, Australia, France, the UK, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in addition to the U.S. They offer macro-level analyses of deportations and border enforcement, analyses of national policy and jurisprudence, and ethnographic accounts of the daily life experience of the prison-to-deportation pipeline, the making of deportability, and post-deportation transitions for noncitizens. This book highlights new directions in critical immigration policy and enforcement and deportation studies with the aim of problematizing the age of punishment that currently reigns over borders and those who seek to cross them. Introduction : immigration policy in an age of punishment / Philip Kretsedemas and David Brotherton -- Obama's legacy as "deporter in chief" / Tanya Bolash-Goza -- Immigration policy and migrant support organizations in an era of austerity and hope / Deirdre Conlon -- Ordinary injustices : persecution, punishment, and the criminalization of asylum in Canada / Graham Hudson -- Seeking asylum in Australia : the role of emotion and narrative in state and civil society responses / Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter -- Critiquing zones of exception : actor-oriented approaches explaining the rise of immigration detention / Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn -- The controlled expansion of local immigration laws : an analysis of US Supreme Court jurisprudence / Philip Kretsedemas -- The sociology of vindictiveness and the deportable alien / David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh -- Banished yet un-deported : the constitution of a 'floating population' of deportees within France / Carolina Boe -- Fear of deportation as a barrier to immigrant integration / Shirley Leyro -- Deported to Tijuana : social networks and religious communities / Maria Dolores Paris and Gabriel Perez Duperou -- Medical deportations : blurring the line between health care and immigration enforcement / Lisa Sun-Hee Park -- Citizenship in the green card army / Sofya Aptekar -- The production of immigration exclusions under H-1B and l-1 visas / Payal Banerjee -- The precarious deportee and human rights in the Dominican Republic / Yolanda Martin contents 1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment part I. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations 2. President Obama’s Legacy as “Deporter in Chief ” 3. Immigration Policy and Mi grant Support Organ izations in an Era of Austerity and Hope 4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada 5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses 6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor- Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention 7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An Analy sis of U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence part II. Producing Deportable Subjects 8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien 9. Banished Yet Undeported: The Constitution of a “Floating Population” of Deportees Within France 10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration 11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities 12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line Between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement 13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army 14. The Production of Noncitizen Exclusions Under H-1B and L-1 Visas 15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic Contributors Index