Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security
Role
Anna Sampaio (Author)
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Description
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.
ISBN
978-1-43991-286-7
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press
Disciplines
Latin American Languages and Societies | Latina/o Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Recommended Citation
Sampaio, Anna, "Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security" (2015). Faculty Book Gallery. 49.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/49