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Summary:

"Immigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics. Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting Latinas/os. Her book concludes with an examination of immigration reform under the Obama administration, contrasting the promise of hope and change with the reality of increased detentions, deportations, and continued marginalization."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Reconfiguring race and gender in the war on terrorism
• Masculinist protectionism, racialized demonization, and the formation of the contemporary security regime
• Racialization of Latinas/os within American immigration law and policy
• Securitizing immigration legislation
• Terrorizing immigrants : the return of large-scale raids and roundups and their impact on Latina/o communities
• Security and citizenship : "enemy combatants" and the cases of John Walker Lindh, Yaser Hamdi, and José Padilla
• The end of terror? : a new administration and a new chapter in immigration politics.

Author/Creator:

Sampaio, Anna, 1969- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Terrorizing Latina/o immigrants: race, gender, and immigration politics in the age of security [by Sampaio, A.]

Subjects:

Latin America — Emigration and immigration — History — 21st century

United States — Emigration and immigration — Government policy — History — 21st century

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Hispanic Americans — Social conditions

War on Terrorism (2001-2009)

2000-2099

Emigration and immigration

Hispanic Americans

Emigration and immigration — Government policy

United States

Latin America

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JV7398 .S36 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781439912874 (electronic bk.)
1439912874 (electronic bk.)
9781439912850 [Invalid]
1439912858 [Invalid]
9781439912867 [Invalid]
1439912866 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40025494430

OCLC Numbers:

919719585

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4312033 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12583169