Moral panic as racial degradation ceremony: Racial stratification and the local-level backlash against Latino/a immigrants

Longazel, Jamie

doi:10.1177/1462474512466200

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“…One promising approach would be the use of qualitative studies to draw upon moral panic theory to examine the backlash against Latino immigrants in the United States and similarly situated newcomers in Europe. Recent work by Longazel [30] highlights the role racial motives play in fostering moral panics and the perceived racial threats that trigger them. By describing how local anti-immigration legislation and politics Bcontributed to the racialization of Latino/as, the social construction of whiteness, and the reaffirmation of racial hierarchies^( [30], p. 111), this type of inquiry demonstrates how hundreds of municipalities and even some states passed similarly racially tinged and hostile immigration laws.…”

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“…Recent work by Longazel [30] highlights the role racial motives play in fostering moral panics and the perceived racial threats that trigger them. By describing how local anti-immigration legislation and politics Bcontributed to the racialization of Latino/as, the social construction of whiteness, and the reaffirmation of racial hierarchies^( [30], p. 111), this type of inquiry demonstrates how hundreds of municipalities and even some states passed similarly racially tinged and hostile immigration laws. These copycat laws singled out immigrants with harsh legislation meant to make everyday life unbearable.…”

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“…These copycat laws singled out immigrants with harsh legislation meant to make everyday life unbearable. By linking local immigration laws to our understanding of national-level policies in both the United States and Europe, it appears that many sweeping changes in immigration policy were justified by the myth that immigrants are inherently crime prone [30].…”

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Race, immigration, and homicide in contemporary Europe and the United States: an urban comparison

Martinez

Iwama

Stowell

2015

Crime Law Soc Change

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In this paper we ask a key question: Do immigrants contribute a disproportionate amount of crime beyond what we would expect from native-born populations? We start with a description of the immigration and homicide literature in the United States and Europe and transition into a description of lessons learned from this topic in the United States. Specifically, we compare the level of immigration to white, black, and Latino homicide rates between 1985 and 2009. We compare and contrast racial/ ethnic/immigrant group specific homicide rates in the cities of Miami and San Diego from 1980 through 2000. We do so since both cities are major entry points into the United States. We compare these findings to European countries, because there are some similarities on immigration into the United States and Europe and, by extension, the study of immigration and violence. In many ways, the study of urban immigration and homicide in the United States is relevant to the study of urban immigration and homicide in Europe. Many of the topics discussed in this paper are likely to be faced by European countries in the future and our hope is that findings from the United States are useful in other contexts.

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Race, immigration, and homicide in contemporary Europe and the United States: an urban comparison

Martinez

Iwama

Stowell

2015

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“…However, media visibility increased after these events (Lord ; Sherman , , ). The media focused on racial profiling and presented a positive image of the Latina/o community, a contrast from when the media presented this community as “threatening,” and successfully cast their image as marginal (Longazel ; Romero ; Sáenz et al. ).…”

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Experiences of Discrimination in an Emerging Latina/o Community

Macía

2016

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In this article I explore how members of an emerging community of Latina/o immigrants in Pittsburgh, a small but rapidly growing population, understand and respond to discrimination. Both documented and undocumented Latina/o immigrants reported experiencing discrimination and facing challenges in addressing these experiences. However, personal context has an impact on specific grievance processes. I specifically explore three main topics:(1) the difficulty expressed by many Latina/o immigrants in using the name-blame-claim continuum for discriminatory acts; (2) how discriminatory incidents tend to reinforce the intrinsic inequality at the root of discrimination; and (3) how acts of discrimination and the responses to them actively shape the Latina/o identity within their own community and by their American-born counterparts. [discrimination, emerging immigrant communities, Latina/o immigrants, identity]José 1 was nervous as he told me me about the day his workplace was raided by police officers asking for documentation. The treatment by the officers felt abusive: they entered the company yelling "as if looking for a mass murderer," and humiliating him. The officer in charge refused to accept José's driver's license as identification and called US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Despite receiving confirmation of José's legal status, the officer summoned him to the police station, where he dismissed his signed Social Security card and continued to ask for proof of legal status. The officer further demanded José to bring forward the coworkers who had left when the police arrived. For José this was a deeply traumatic experience. In his words, he felt less of a person after it happened and considered it a reflection of how society regarded him.Just remembering about that my nerves are on edge . . . I thought about suing, but I felt so frustrated, so helpless that I didn't want to do anything. I only wanted to lock myself in my room and see nobody. He almost succeeded in making me feel like garbage. For a while I felt like that: so insignificant, so like nothing. 2In this article I explore how Latina/o immigrants in an emerging immigrant community in Pittsburgh understand and respond to discrimination. Both documented and undocumented Latina/o immigrants reported experiencing discrimination and faced challenges in addressing these experiences. However, personal circumstances impact specific grievance processes. I specifically explore the difficulty expressed by many Latina/o immigrants in blaming others for discriminatory acts, and how these discriminatory incidents tend to reinforce the intrinsic inequality at the root of discrimination. Acts of discrimination and the responses to them actively shape the identity held by Latina/o immigrants themselves and their American-born counterparts.

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“…This symposium takes as its jumping‐off point the expansion of legal and social control over immigrants in industrialized countries across the world amidst globalization. Immigrant detention and deportation are on the rise in many countries (Cheliotis ); elusive legal status limits mobility and generates constant fear among immigrants (Coutin ; Núñez and Heyman ); criminalization and racialization subordinate immigrants regardless of legal status (Provine and Doty ; Barker ; Kubrin, Zatz, and Martínez ; Guia, Van der Woude, and Van der Leun ; Longazel , ); and the exploitation of immigrant labor—enabled by the vulnerability that state control generates—has become a cornerstone of the global economy (Sassen ; De Genova ; Calavita ; De Giorgi ; Ness ).…”

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