Moral career of migrant il/legality: Undocumented male youths in New York City and Paris negotiating deportability and regularizability

Ruszczyk, Stephen P.

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“…Workplaces are subject to national‐level inspections and immigration status enforcement, which push undocumented people to work into less mainstream spaces (e.g., subcontracted work in homes) in Paris. This difference allowed New York young males to develop home‐work mobilities and play an adult breadwinner role in their families whereas Paris youths moved less and missed this adult role (Ruszczyk 2021).…”

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The Spatial Mobility Trap? How Urban Contexts Shape the Spatial Mobility of Male Undocumented Youths

Ruszczyk

2022

Sociological Forum

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Some scholars have argued urban autonomy creates inclusive spaces for migrants, while others have argued interiorized border security and discriminatory policing constrain racialized migrants. This article examines the extent to which the urban context represents a spatial mobility trap for urban undocumented youths as they become adults, based on data from longitudinal comparative ethnography with undocumented youths, schools, and civil society actors in Paris and New York City. Public schools, public transportation, policing, and informal labor market practices distinguish the urban regimes of migrant il/legality in the two cities, shaping how such youths move within and outside urban space. These elements may magnify or mitigate legal‐status distinctions between undocumented youths and others. As protections for undocumented minors waned at adulthood, New York City's regime blurred legal‐status distinctions, accelerating intracity mobility for most youths while Paris's approach brightened such distinctions, limiting mobility. These findings contribute a spatial mobility perspective to studies of migrant illegality and an urban sociology perspective to the transition to adulthood.

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The Spatial Mobility Trap? How Urban Contexts Shape the Spatial Mobility of Male Undocumented Youths

Ruszczyk

2022

Sociological Forum

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“…What exactly counts as societal inclusion and membership if legalization, as argued in Chapter 4, fails to remedy the hardships of illegality? Engage and Evade assesses deportability and regularizability (the possibilities of deportation and regularization or legalization) rather than inclusion and exclusion (see Ruszczyk, 2021). Lastly, the title conveys the core of the argument, but Asad's analysis highlights some limitations.…”

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Engage and evade: How Latino immigrant families manage surveillance in everyday life. By Asad L. Asad. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 344 pp. $33.00 hardcover

Cornejo Casares

2023

Law Soc Rev

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This approach has fundamental existential significance. People are rarely aware that-let alone how-their lives are governed by norms, how norms determine what they choose to do and, just as importantly, how norms influence perceptions of what choices there are to make in the first place. Hydén's reasoning on this subject is based on a profound knowledge of human thought and emotional life. It also provides deep insights into the relationship between the horizons of understanding at the level of individual psychology and the mechanisms of action governed by the laws of social psychology.Hydén's presentation is characterized by intellectual vigor and by a pathos grounded in a deeply felt need to understand a world now in rapid upheaval. The knowledge conveyed in the book is deeply impressive, obviously acquired over a lifetime of professional work. There is only one thing to hope for in terms of the future development of knowledge about the crucial role of norms in society: that sociology of law as the science of norms will establish itself as a field of research in its own right.

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Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021

Díaz McConnell,

Martinez

2024

International Migration Review

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Extensive scholarship traces the development and impacts of the U.S. immigration and deportation system on Latino immigrants and U.S. born Latinos, alike. However, relatively little quantitative research has investigated the worries that Latinos express about deportation, explored the temporal dynamics in such concerns, or identified which factors predict shifts in deportation-related concerns over time. Using two waves of data for a national sample of U.S. Latino adults, the analyses explored changes in their deportation worry between 2019 and 2021, marking the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden administration. Descriptive results indicate that more than a third of Latinos reported reductions in deportation worry over the two year period, with even larger proportions of Latino immigrants, including naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents and undocumented immigrants, reporting declines in worry. Regression results reveal that, aside from indicators of legal vulnerability, other aspects of the current sociopolitical and racialized context meaningfully shape declines in deportation worries. Specifically, darker-skinned Latinos, and those experiencing more anti-Hispanic discrimination, expressing some co-ethnic linked fate, and who viewed the Trump administration as harmful to Latinos reported significant reductions in worry from 2019 to 2021, ceteris paribus. These results suggest a “calming effect” of some Latinos’ deportation worries as the Trump administration ended and the Biden administration began. Nevertheless, the study demonstrates how the racialized immigration and deportation system shapes deportation-related worries among a wide swath of Latinos, the consequences of which racialize them and spill over into their everyday lives.

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Moral career of migrant il/legality: Undocumented male youths in New York City and Paris negotiating deportability and regularizability

Cited by 3 publications

References 62 publications

The Spatial Mobility Trap? How Urban Contexts Shape the Spatial Mobility of Male Undocumented Youths

The Spatial Mobility Trap? How Urban Contexts Shape the Spatial Mobility of Male Undocumented Youths

Engage and evade: How Latino immigrant families manage surveillance in everyday life. By Asad L. Asad. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 344 pp. $33.00 hardcover

Change in Administration, Change in Deportation Worry? Analyzing the Reduction of U.S. Latinos’ Worries About Deportation from 2019 to 2021

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