Rescaling the “Alien,” Rescaling Personhood: Neoliberalism, Immigration, and the State

Varsanyi, Monica W.

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“…US immigration agencies now contract with local jurisdictions to check immigration status, a marked change from previous efforts to consolidate immigration enforcement with federal law enforcement agencies alone (Varsanyi 2008;Coleman 2007Coleman , 2009. Forming a 'postentry landscape' in which noncitizens are increasingly subject to surveillance, inspection, detention and deportation, immigration enforcement works as a form of social control for both documented and undocumented noncitizens living in the United States (Coleman 2008a;Kanstroom 2000).…”

Section: Immigration Law As Foreign Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mobilizing 'racialized narratives on the penetration of external menaces in national space through immigration' (Nagel 2002, 972), the Supreme Court considered noncitizens' admission an issue of sovereign territorial power, enabling the limitation of judicial authority over immigration matters and culminating in what is understood as the 'plenary doctrine of immigration'. Fong Yue Ting v. United States (1893) took the plenary doctrine one step further, ruling that the federal government retained sovereign right to deport noncitizens from the territorial US without judicial intervention (Varsanyi 2008). Making noncitizens subject to rejection and deportation, plenary power over immigration treated noncitizens as 'aliens' rather than 'persons' (Varsanyi 2008).…”

Section: Immigration Law As Foreign Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fong Yue Ting v. United States (1893) took the plenary doctrine one step further, ruling that the federal government retained sovereign right to deport noncitizens from the territorial US without judicial intervention (Varsanyi 2008). Making noncitizens subject to rejection and deportation, plenary power over immigration treated noncitizens as 'aliens' rather than 'persons' (Varsanyi 2008). Authorizing a separate immigration law regime, the plenary doctrine 'works paradoxically through the law as it at once holds [constitutional] law at bay', thereby suspending constitutional protections for noncitizens (Coleman 2007, 62).…”

Section: Immigration Law As Foreign Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Specifically, the parties to Bunikyte et al v. Chertoff et al debated whether existing law confined children's protections to children's bodies or included the (family) relationships and (private) spaces that constitute 'home-like environments'. Immigration law endows ICE, however, with wide 'discretion to detain' noncitizens and federal courts have limited power to intervene in immigration enforcement practices (Coleman 2007;Varsanyi 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Changes have been made to all three permanent immigration streams -family reunification, economic and humanitarian migration, as well as to citizenship and settlement policies (Alboim & Cohl October 2012), with even further announced changes soon to come. On the whole, this transformation has been interpreted as Canada tightening and restructuring its policies to remain competitive in the globalized, economic "battle for the brains" (Shachar 2006), in the process excluding those who do not fit the neoliberal logic (Varsanyi 2008). That humanitarian migration has also been restricted and transformed has generally been linked to the worldwide "securitization" 1 of migration (Dauvergne 2008;Watson 2009).…”

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Shifting Up and Back

Soennecken

2014

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during the last decade, Canada's immigration and citizenship policies have been radically transformed. Hardly any aspect has been left untouched. That humanitarian migration has also been restricted and transformed has generally been linked to the worldwide "securitization" of migration. This paper argues that the timing and character of a number of key changes also represent a european turn of Canada's refugee policy, which has seen Canada change from a policy innovator and humanitarian leader to a student, follower and adaptor of a key set of restrictionist asylum policies practiced in europe.

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Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies and Preterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US

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IMPORTANCE Criminalizing immigrant policies, a form of structural racism, are associated with preterm birth; however, to date, few population studies have examined this association by race and nativity status or examined the association of inclusive immigrant policies with preterm birth.OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which variation in preterm birth by race/ethnicity and nativity status is associated with state-level criminalizing vs inclusive immigrant policies. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTSThis retrospective, cross-sectional study analyzed birth record data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2018, as well as state-level indicators of inclusive and criminalizing immigrant policies. White, Black, Asian, and Latina women who had singleton births were included in the study. Statistical analysis was performed from June 1, 2020, to February 5, 2021. Two continuous variables were created to capture the number of criminalizing vs inclusive immigrant policies in effect as of 2017 in each state. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURESThe main outcome measure was preterm birth (<37 weeks' gestation). RESULTSAmong the 3 455 514 live births that occurred in 2018, 10.0% were preterm, and 23.2% were to mothers born outside the US. Overall, for women born outside the US, each additional statelevel inclusive policy was associated with a 2% decrease in preterm birth (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.98 [95% CI, 0.96-1.00]); there were no significant associations between inclusive policies and preterm birth among women born in the US. In models examining the combined associations of criminalizing and inclusive immigrant policies with preterm birth, each additional criminalizing policy was associated with a 5% increase in preterm birth among Black women born outside the US (aOR, 1.05 [95% CI, 1.00-1.10]). Each additional inclusive immigrant policy was associated with a lower likelihood of preterm birth for Asian women born in the US (aOR, 0.95 [95% CI, 0.93-0.98]) and White women born outside the US (aOR, 0.97 [95% CI, 0.95-0.99]). No significant associations were found among other groups.CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This study suggests that criminalizing immigrant policies are associated with an increase in preterm birth specifically for Black women born outside the US.Inclusive immigrant policies are associated with a decrease in preterm birth for immigrants overall, Asian women born in the US, and White women born outside the US. No associations were found between criminalizing or inclusive immigrant policies and preterm birth among Latina women.

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Rescaling the “Alien,” Rescaling Personhood: Neoliberalism, Immigration, and the State

Cited by 177 publications

References 50 publications

The geopolitics of vulnerability: children's legal subjectivity, immigrant family detention and US immigration law and enforcement policy

The geopolitics of vulnerability: children's legal subjectivity, immigrant family detention and US immigration law and enforcement policy

Shifting Up and Back

Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies and Preterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US

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