Reform Without Justice

Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State

Bibliographic Data

ID20022446
AuthorsAlfonso Gonzales (0000-0003-1697-5542, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages236
Publication date2013-11-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReform Without Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199973392.001.0001
OpenAlexW4250347931
Open LibraryOL28514159M
ISBN9780199973392
LanguageEN
Citations received45

Ten years after the war on terror, the deportation of millions, and the ostensive rise of Latino political power, Reform without Justice provides an analysis of both Latino migrant activism and state migration control as part of a dialectical problem facing 21st- century democracy. This book explains the complex constellation of forces driving migration control policies and the challenges they present for Latino migrant activists and their allies in the post-9/11 era. Drawing on political theory and field research with more than fifty migrant activists and policy makers in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York City, as well as deportees in Mexico and El Salvador, it argues that Latino migrant activists and their allies face a dynamic form of political power, termed “anti-migrant hegemony,” that wins consent for state violence against migrants through a race-neutral and common-sense discourse around crime and anti-terrorism. Anti-migrant hegemony is a fluid and disparate force that is exerted in multiple sites of state power, such as local county jails, the U.S. Congress, foreign policy institutions, think tanks, the media, and others. More than any one policy or law, anti-migrant hegemony has led a sector of the public—including some Latino migrant activists and their allies—to support reform proposals that are bound to fail because they ignore the global economic forces driving migration and reinforce the structures of state violence against migrants. The book concludes by discussing how Latino migrant activist and their allies could change this reality and help democratize the United States

Democracy · Deportation · Economic Justice · Hegemony · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Civil rights · emigration and immigration · Ethnic Studies · Government policy · Hispanic americans · Illegal aliens · Immigration enforcement · Migrant agricultural laborers · Migrant labor · Political Freedom & Security · politics and government · Social Science · united states