A second generation of immigrant illegality studies

Ruszczyk, Stephen P.; Barbosa, Guillermo Yrizar

doi:10.1093/migration/mnw019

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“…Taken together, these cases demonstrate not only the scalar nature of the current immigration landscape but also the dynamic nature of illegality itself (Ruszczyk and Barbosa ). Our cases highlight differences across states, counties, and localities, but we also see some similarities.…”

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“…Illegality is a legal, racial, and spatial condition that is complexly constructed and applied along racial, gender, and class lines (De Genova , ; Ngai ; Chavez ; Willen ; Abrego and Menjívar ; Enriquez ; García ). The experience of illegality is defined largely by deportability (DeGenova 2002) but also by the lived experience of navigating across various institutional, social, and political contexts (Ruszczyk and Barbosa ). According to Hiemstra (, 78), “labeling a person ‘illegal’ is a subtle yet powerful tool for creating, marking, and magnifying perceived difference and exclusion.” While illegality is a “master status,” the status is always socially and historically rooted (Ngai ; Menjívar and Kanstroom ).…”

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Legal–Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality

Flores¹,

Escudero²,

Burciaga³

2019

Law & Policy

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Here we advance the concept of legal–spatial consciousness—an individual's awareness of how law and space are mutually formed and influential on their lives. Through this concept, we explore how undocumented youth in a variety of American destinations understand and experience migrant illegality. By examining how immigration law and local places are imbricated, we demonstrate how immigrant illegality is defined not only by a patchwork of municipal, state, and federal laws, but also by how undocumented people move through these differently legal spaces in their everyday lives. Illegality is thus continually reproduced through individuals’ im/mobility through space.

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Legal–Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality

Flores¹,

Escudero²,

Burciaga³

2019

Law & Policy

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“…Another area of unanswered questions involves how policy interacts with different aspects of the unauthorized immigrant experience, both within the lives of immigrants and between immigrants defined by local contexts, such as states or communities, and sociodemographic characteristics, such as national origin, race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, and sexuality (Flores & Schachter, 2018;Ruszczyk & Yrizar Barbosa, 2016). While several compelling qualitative studies suggest that state policy moderates the impact of federal immigration law (Cebulko & Silver, 2016;Martinez, 2014) and other studies have estimated the direct impact of state policies on unauthorized immigrants (De Trinidad Young et al, 2018;Flores, 2009), more research is needed to explore the propositions raised by this research: to understand how and why states may moderate the impact of federal immigration law for the integration of children in mixed-status families.…”

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Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families

2019

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Over the past three decades, a central new challenge confronting millions of children of immigrants has emerged: growing up in a mixed‐status family in which at least one member lacks legal authorization to live and work in the United States. A body of recent research argues that unauthorized immigrant status is the fundamental determinant of integration for unauthorized immigrants, with intergenerational consequences for their U.S.‐born children. We discuss the immigration and other policies that create the particular social context within which unauthorized immigration status becomes so detrimental for integration. Specifically, we focus on federal and state policies that undermine the very factors thought to protect children and support the integration of new generations of Americans: families and social networks, economic resources and opportunities, and health. We conclude with recommendations for future research.

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“…For migrants and transnational communities, sports mean a place to gather and a space for community encounters, where they can express feelings of belonging -a common origin to a country, a region or even a locality. Also, ball games are used for the social networking that makes life easier in the country of arrival, where migrants are the target of exclusion, illegalization, criminalization and discrimination in everyday life (Müller and Murillo 2014;Alonso Meneses and Escala Rabadán 2012;Ruszczyk and Yrizar Barbosa 2017). At the same time, this appropriation of space is linked to transcultural processes: Migrants are integrated into the culture of the host country through soccer and basketball -very popular sports in most places.…”

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Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces

Haß

Schütze

2021

Sport in Society

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This is an introduction to the special issue "Communities in Movement: Football and Basketball in Transcultural Spaces". The articles focus on amateur basketball and football teams and leagues founded by Latin American migrants in the US and Brazil: Oaxacan basketball leagues in Los Angeles explored by Luis Escala Rabadán, Bolivian and Peruvian football leagues in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro investigated by Julia Haß and Stephanie Schütze, as well as Mexican and Latino football teams in New York studied by Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa. These articles explore the meaning of football and basketball in transcultural spaces, asking the following questions: How do migrants gain access to sports spaces in their places of arrival and how are these disputed? What impacts do they have on community building? How are they connected to work experiences and to other forms of social and cultural organization? How are different senses of belonging disputed in these spaces? How are they at the same time linked to processes of exclusion and discrimination?The forms of basketball and football that are widespread in most Latin American countries today were introduced at the end of the nineteenth century. 1 From the beginning, they were influenced by migratory movements. By the early twentieth century, football clubs existed in most Latin American metropolises, many of them founded by European immigrants. Basketball teams were established in many places at the same time, although this sport never reached the prevalence and mass media diffusion that developed in North America. 2 Today both ball games are very popular and have become more and more organized and institutionalized in Latin America -at professional as well as amateur levels.Recent anthropological research has shown that although they were imported from Europe and North America, sport cultures are dispersed and locally appropriated in in multiple ways (Kummels 2013; Ungruhe and Agergaard 2020). Sports are adapted to local settings through new rules, techniques, cultural and social significances, and then re-circulated to various regions around the world. Today we can observe diverse transculturalization processes of ball sports cultures that mainly result from current migration processes. There are versions of Latin American ball sports played in different parts of the world: for example, 'Fútsal and Fútbol Society' , Brazilian versions of football played in smaller teams

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A second generation of immigrant illegality studies

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Legal–Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality

Legal–Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality

Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families

Communities in movement: football and basketball in transcultural spaces

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