Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality

Conley, Meghan

doi:10.1093/sf/soaa062

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“…The limited published studies (Conley 2013a(Conley , 2013bDiaz McConnell 2011;Lovato 2008) providing evidence-based accounts of the realities that unauthorized immigrants face as social actors in southern communities prompt further research of this type. We thus encourage the replication of similarly designed research approaches to further enhance our understanding of the experiences of Latina/Latinos and migrants in other settings of the American South.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this article, a third perspective aligned with Conley's (2013aConley's ( , 2013b line of work provides a valuable integrated insight that brings these two concepts together. We think of the polimigra not just as a "multipronged immigration regime" but as one in which Latina/Latino immigrants construct police departments as institutional enforcers of a deportation regime.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“La Polimigra”

Bustamante

Gamino

2018

Humanity & Society

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This article examines the use of a presumption of illegality by local police officers to enforce a deportation regime in the Northwest Arkansas region. We employed an integrated racialized legal violence model to understand the way officers and immigration authorities collaborate to screen immigrants’ legal status for deportation purposes. Rather than focusing on how collaborations operate from an institutional point of view, the article provided a detailed and rich experiential description of participants’ realities shaped by the interplay of migration policy and local police practices. We concluded that the screening tactics used by local police in the cases considered in this article reflect a form of racialized legal violence intended to enforce a deportation regime against unauthorized people of Latino origin from this Arkansas area.

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“La Polimigra”

Bustamante

Gamino

2018

Humanity & Society

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“…The anti-immigrant exclusionary policy context is pronounced throughout much of the southeast. For example, heightened anti-immigrant actions in southern states have been visible through local law enforcement agencies entering into agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to permit arrest and detention of undocumented immigrants by local officers [ 25 , 26 , 28 ]. In addition, the two largest ICE raids in nearly ten years occurred under the Trump administration in Tennessee and Mississippi, with more than 700 immigrants being detained across the two states [ 25 , 28 ].…”

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“…Exclusionary policies are harmful for both immigrant and non-immigrant Latinxs. Enforcement activity escalates fear among undocumented immigrants, in addition to their family and community members who continually fear for their safety [ 26 , 31 – 36 ].…”

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“…Relative to traditional settlement areas, new destinations have small Latinx communities with higher proportions of newer immigrants, resulting in increased stress associated with lower rates of English proficiency, historical knowledge of local contexts and resources, and community integration [ 17 , 20 , 76 ]. In these contexts, Latinx adults contend with both federal and local exclusionary policies that can yield elevated exposure to discrimination and pandemic-related stress, while simultaneously inhibiting access to formal services [ 26 ].…”

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Effects of COVID-19, Discrimination, and Social Support on Latinx Adult Mental Health

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Huslage

2022

J Immigrant Minority Health

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We investigated the role of COVID-19 exposure and discrimination on depressive and posttraumatic stress symptoms among Latinx adults residing in the southeastern United States. Survey data were collected from 264 Latinx adults. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures, we estimated a structural model for hypothesized direct and indirect relationships between the risk factors of COVID-19 exposure and discrimination, social support, and two mental health conditions: depression and posttraumatic stress. COVID-19 exposure and discrimination each had a significant and positive relationship with both depression and posttraumatic stress. Social support was found to have a significant and inverse relationship with depression and posttraumatic stress, as well as to mediate the relationship between discrimination and both mental health symptoms. Implications for service provision and program design are presented. Future studies should examine variation between southeastern states and consider the influence of documentation status among an immigrant-only sample.

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“Stuck In‐Between”: Placing the Underdocumented Youth Movement in Georgia

Freshour

Varelas

2022

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This paper draws on participant-observation and a series of focus group interviews with TPS and DACA youth in Northeast Georgia to understand youth activism emerging from their positionality of being "stuck in-between". "Stuck in-between" captures the liminal legal status of DACA and TPS, denotes the feeling of "stuckness" in mixed-status multigenerational families, and foregrounds the profound ways in which place and race intersect with legal, social, and ideological practices of inclusion/exclusion. Underdocumented youth form multiracial coalitions, guided by Black geographies of the region, to challenge imperial borders that criminalise and (re)produce categories of vulnerability. This place in-between shapes underdocumented youth understanding of the world, informed by, rather than in competition with, Black radical visions of themselves and of the place of the US South.

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Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South: Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality

Cited by 6 publications

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“La Polimigra”

“La Polimigra”

Effects of COVID-19, Discrimination, and Social Support on Latinx Adult Mental Health

“Stuck In‐Between”: Placing the Underdocumented Youth Movement in Georgia

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