Kitty Calavita
Biographic Data
| ID | 176519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kitty Calavita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kitty |
| FAMILY NAME | Calavita |
| SIGNATURE | CALAVITA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 558 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Contradicciones estructurales en la política de inmigración los casos de la Europa del Sur y de los Estados Unidos
Este artículo examina la contradicción que está en el fondo de las políticas de inmigración italianas y españolas entre las llamadas a la integración y la marginalidad asociada con el estatus temporal y contingente de la inmigración. Argumento aquí que esta tensión es estructural y refleja una contradicción subyacente en la economía política de estas sociedades postfordistas. En la segunda parte de este artículo examino esta misma tensión en la p…
It Depends on the Outcome: Prisoners, Grievances, and Perceptions of Justice
Social scientists have long investigated the social, cultural, and psychological forces that shape perceptions of fairness. A vast literature on procedural justice advances a central finding: the process by which a dispute is played out is central to people's perceptions of fairness and their satisfaction with dispute outcomes. There is, however, one glaring gap in the literature. In this era of mass incarceration, studies of how the incarcerated…
Race, Grievance Systems, and Prisoners' Perceptions of Justice in Three California Prisons
A large body of social science consistently documents race differences in the U.S. criminal justice system and in related perceptions of justice. It is now beyond dispute that the criminal justice system is racialized in a plethora of ways that have consequences for how people perceive justice. Another vast body of literature documents the importance of perceptions of procedural justice in people's satisfaction with dispute management and outcome…
Chambliss, William J. (1933–2014)
William Chambliss was a leading force in conflict theory, criminology, and the sociology of law. His dialectical theory of law creation, law enforcement, and state crime placed class conflict and other political–economic contradictions at the center of analysis. His most cited works include “A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy”; “The Saints and the Roughnecks”; On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents ; and Power, Politics, and Cri…
Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Appealing to Justice is an unprecedented study of disputing in prison and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. The authors gained unique access to California prisoners and correctional officers, as well as to thousands of prisoners’ grievances. Quoting extensively from these data, they give voice to those who are rarely heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms in the literature—for example, about the…
Rorschach Tests, Pluralism, and Hopes for the Future: A Response to the Responses
In this essay, I address some of the concerns raised by contributors to the Symposium on Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law . I argue that law and society scholarship focusing on race increasingly offers some of our field's best empirical analyses of the interpenetration of law and society; I emphasize the importance of the methodological and theoretical diversity that characterizes our fragmented field, arguing…
Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in California Prisons
Previous literature on disputing and legal mobilization suggests that stigmatized, self-blaming, and/or vulnerable populations often face insurmountable barriers to naming a situation as injurious and claiming redress. Contrary to what one would expect from this literature, prisoners in the United States—among the most stigmatized and vulnerable of populations—file tens of thousands of grievances annually. To explore this apparent paradox, we dra…
Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
The Struggle for Racial Justice: The Personal, the Political, and … the Economic
Invitation to law and society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
Deflecting the Immigration Debate: Globalization, Immigrant Agency, "Strange Bedfellows," and Beyond
In sum, both books are worth reading. Where Myers analyzes our current intergen erational impasse, and suggests a way out of it, Light analyzes how this impasse is being lived out at the local level, and why it will endure. Immigrants and Boomers and De flecting Immigration contribute significantly to our understanding of contemporary immi gration, and should open new roads for re search and inform current policy debates
Law, immigration and exclusion in Italy and Spain
Aquest article explora la legislació sobre immigració a Itàlia i a Espanya, i se centra en la tensió entre la marginació econòmica, social i legal dels immigrants, d’una banda, i l’èmfasi retòrica en la integració, d’una altra. Argumenta que aquesta tensió reflecteix la contradicció en la seva política econòmica, en la qual la unitat de la força de treball barata, contingent —marginal— es contraresta per la reacció política contra la inevitableme…
Braceros and Guestworkers in the United States and Spain: A political and contextual analysis of difference
Gender, Migration, and Law: Crossing Borders and Bridging Disciplines
The gendered nature of the immigration experience is shaped and reinforced by law, legal consciousness, and the normative understandings they help constitute. This article provides an overview of the role of gender in migration processes from a law and society perspective, and includes an empirical focus on the new immigration to Italy and Spain as an illustration of the utility of such an approach. Beginning with a brief summary of the literatur…
Contradicciones estructurales en la política de inmigración: Los casos de la Europa del Sur y de los Estados Unidos (Structural Contradictions in Immigration Policymaking: The Case of Southern Europe …
Este articulo examina la contradiccion que esta en el fondo de las politicas de inmigracion italianas y espanolas entre las llamadas a la integracion y la marginalidad asociada con el estatus temporal y contingente de la inmigracion. Argumento aqui que esta tension es estructural y refleja una contradiccion subyacente en la economia politica de estas sociedades postfordistas. En la segunda parte de este articulo examino esta misma tension en la p…
Immigrants at the Margin
Collisions at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Laws
This article explores the ramifications of the intersections of gender, race, and class ideologies for the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws in the years immediately following their passage. Drawing from government documents and archival data, I argue that the notions of gender, race, and class that permeated the legislative debate contained significant incoherences and self-contradictions, and that many of the dilemmas surrounding the en…
Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era
Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe
Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. This book reveals that while law and the rhetoric of policymakers stress the urgency of integration, not only are they failin…
"Law, Citizenship, and the Construction of (Some) Immigrant "Others
"Law, Citizenship, and the Construction of (Some) Immigrant "Others
Nationalism and Exclusion of Migrants: Cross-National Comparisons
A `Reserve Army of Delinquents: The Criminalization and Economic Punishment of Immigrants in Spain
This article explores the role of `irregular' immigrants in the political economy of Spain, their related criminalization and the forms of punishment that attach to their illegal status. Based on secondary data, government documents and field research, I argue that Spanish immigration laws primarily focus on defining levels of social and economic inclusion/exclusion, and that they have the consequence of marginalizing immigrants and consigning th…
Engaged Research, "Goose Bumps," and the Role of the Public Intellectual
As I was preparing my remarks for today, I thought about other LSA Presidential Addresses that had resonated with me, from Felice Levine's (1990) description of Lily Tomlin's "Trudy," and the "goose bumps" that she (Felice) got from sociolegal studies, to Frank Munger's (2001) appeal to law and society scholars to do engaged research.I realized that two themes I care passionately about were implicit in several of those previous talks, and that's …
Chinese Exclusion and the Open Door with China: Structural Contradictions and the 'Chaos' of Law, 1882-1910
This article examines the structural contradictions underlying the difficulties of implementing the Chinese exclusion laws first enacted by the US Congress in 1882. I argue that these contradictions were grounded in the material and ideological conditions of the period, were reproduced in the unwieldy logic of the exclusion laws, and emerged as unresolvable enforcement dilemmas. Most important, the anti-Chinese racism on which the exclusion laws …
The New Politics of Immigration: Balanced-Budget Conservatism' and the Symbolism of Proposition 187
This paper focuses on the politics of the new immigration restrictionism as manifest in Proposition 187, passed by California voters in 1994. I first show that restrictionist sentiment and immigrant scapegoating have a long history in U.S. immigration politics, briefly reviewing three periods of early nativism: 1870s to the 1890s; 1900 to World War I; and World War I and its aftermath. I then make two principal arguments. First, I argue that the …
Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain
This case study of immigration law in Spain examines the contradiction between the rhetoric of immigration politics stressing immigrant integration and the reality of immigrant exclusion and marginalization. Drawing from a variety of secondary sources, government documents, and interviews, I show how Spanish policies regularly "irregularize" Third World immigrants. Further, I argue that this legal construction of illegality consigns these immigra…
The Paradoxes of Race, Class, Identity, and “Passing”: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Acts, 1882–1910
In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring the entry into the United States of all Chinese laborers. This article explores the dilemmas and contradictions associated with the enforcement of this legislation, focusing on the early years during which the most glaring dilemmas were exposed. Drawing from congressional documents, as well as unpublished letters, memoranda, and circulars of immigration officials, I argue that the diffic…
A `Reserve Army of Delinquents: The Criminalization and Economic Punishment of Immigrants in Spain
This article explores the role of `irregular' immigrants in the political economy of Spain, their related criminalization and the forms of punishment that attach to their illegal status. Based on secondary data, government documents and field research, I argue that Spanish immigration laws primarily focus on defining levels of social and economic inclusion/exclusion, and that they have the consequence of marginalizing immigrants and consigning th…
Employer Sanctions Violations: Toward a Dialectical Model of White-Collar Crime
This article examines violations of the employer sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 as a case study in white-collar crime. Using interviews with 103 "immigrant-dependent" employers in three southern California counties, the study reveals that employer sanctions violations are numerous and that violators feel relatively protected from detection and punishment. It then traces both the prevalence of this crime and …
Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in California Prisons
Previous literature on disputing and legal mobilization suggests that stigmatized, self-blaming, and/or vulnerable populations often face insurmountable barriers to naming a situation as injurious and claiming redress. Contrary to what one would expect from this literature, prisoners in the United States—among the most stigmatized and vulnerable of populations—file tens of thousands of grievances annually. To explore this apparent paradox, we dra…
The Demise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration: A Case Study in Symbolic Action
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, supposedly designed to protect U.S. workers on the job, was seen by many as no more than a symbolic gesture to labor when it was created in 1971. Yet it has become a major target of deregulation by the Reagan administration. This paper attempts to explain why. I suggest that while OSHA had little immediate, impact on working conditions, it did provide a vehicle for incremental gains by labor, bot…
The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
This paper argues that the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 is a composite of contradictory measures. On one hand, employer sanctions are meant to curtail the employment of undocumented workers and preserve the U.S. labor market for legal residents and citizens; on the other hand, special foreign worker programs are designed to enhance the supply of immigrant workers. In an effort to make sense of these contradictions, the author places…
Engaged Research, "Goose Bumps," and the Role of the Public Intellectual
As I was preparing my remarks for today, I thought about other LSA Presidential Addresses that had resonated with me, from Felice Levine's (1990) description of Lily Tomlin's "Trudy," and the "goose bumps" that she (Felice) got from sociolegal studies, to Frank Munger's (2001) appeal to law and society scholars to do engaged research.I realized that two themes I care passionately about were implicit in several of those previous talks, and that's …
Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Appealing to Justice is an unprecedented study of disputing in prison and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. The authors gained unique access to California prisoners and correctional officers, as well as to thousands of prisoners’ grievances. Quoting extensively from these data, they give voice to those who are rarely heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms in the literature—for example, about the…
"Law, Citizenship, and the Construction of (Some) Immigrant "Others
It Depends on the Outcome: Prisoners, Grievances, and Perceptions of Justice
Social scientists have long investigated the social, cultural, and psychological forces that shape perceptions of fairness. A vast literature on procedural justice advances a central finding: the process by which a dispute is played out is central to people's perceptions of fairness and their satisfaction with dispute outcomes. There is, however, one glaring gap in the literature. In this era of mass incarceration, studies of how the incarcerated…
Blue Jeans, Rape, and the "De-Constitutive" Power of Law
Italy's Supreme Court recently overturned a rape conviction on the grounds that the woman was wearing blue jeans at the time. The Court reasoned that blue jeans cannot be removed "without the active cooperation of the person who is wearing them," and therefore sexual intercourse must have been consensual. The decision was met with outrage by media commentators, political leaders, and ordinary Italians in a range of civic organizations. I argue he…
The Savings and Loan Debacle, Financial Crime, and the State
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s was one of the worst financial disasters of the twentieth century. We argue here that much financial fraud of the sort that contributed to this debacle constitutes 'collective embezzlement,' and that this collective embezzlement may be the prototypical corporate crime of the late twentieth century. We further argue that the state may have a different relationship to this kind of financial fraud than to man…
Savings and Loan Fraud as Organized Crime: Toward a Conceptual Typology of Corporate Illegality
This paper proposes a classification scheme for distinguishing “organized crime” and “corporate crime” based not on the occupational position or social status of their perpetrators, but on the motives and methods of the offenses themselves. Using government documents, interviews with FBI investigators and thrift regulators, as well as a variety of secondary sources, it documents patterns of crime in the savings and loan industry and demonstrates …
Other's People's Money' Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries
This paper compares what is called here “collective embezzlement” in the savings and loan and insurance industries, tracing this embezzlement by top management in these two industries to structures of opportunity and risk that are specific to their location in finance capitalism. Using data from government reports, congressional hearings, and media accounts of particular cases, we argue that the deregulation of the 1980s combined with protective …
Gender, Migration, and Law: Crossing Borders and Bridging Disciplines
The gendered nature of the immigration experience is shaped and reinforced by law, legal consciousness, and the normative understandings they help constitute. This article provides an overview of the role of gender in migration processes from a law and society perspective, and includes an empirical focus on the new immigration to Italy and Spain as an illustration of the utility of such an approach. Beginning with a brief summary of the literatur…
Collisions at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Laws
This article explores the ramifications of the intersections of gender, race, and class ideologies for the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws in the years immediately following their passage. Drawing from government documents and archival data, I argue that the notions of gender, race, and class that permeated the legislative debate contained significant incoherences and self-contradictions, and that many of the dilemmas surrounding the en…
The State and White-Collar Crime: Saving the Savings and Loans
We attempt to make sense of the law enforcement response to the savings and loan debacle and the larger pattern of white-collar crime enforcement of which it is a part. Drawing from government documents and in-depth interviews with federal regulators and enforcement officials, we argue that the current response to savings and loan fraud is unprecedented both in terms of the extensive resources committed and the prosecution of thousands of white-c…
Postmodernism and Protest: Recovering the Sociological Imagination
Joel Handler's presidential address to the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association examines the intellectual debates that animate recent studies of social change. This talk is his attempt to understand and question these studies of transformative politics which, Handler claims, are deeply influenced by a turn toward postmodernism. After ruminating over the postmodernist argument and its broader intellectual currents as well as its …
Chinese Exclusion and the Open Door with China: Structural Contradictions and the 'Chaos' of Law, 1882-1910
This article examines the structural contradictions underlying the difficulties of implementing the Chinese exclusion laws first enacted by the US Congress in 1882. I argue that these contradictions were grounded in the material and ideological conditions of the period, were reproduced in the unwieldy logic of the exclusion laws, and emerged as unresolvable enforcement dilemmas. Most important, the anti-Chinese racism on which the exclusion laws …
Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case
This paper is a case study of the occupational safety and health provisions of the Italian Workers' Rights Law of 1970, which gave Italian workers the broad right to regulate safety and health conditions at the shop level. The paper traces the political history of this controversial legislation and workers' and employers' responses to it. It then provides evidence that the law was neither the mere "symbolic gesture" nor the tool to "open new hori…
The Savings and Loan Debacle of the 1980s: White‐Collar Crime or Risky Business
This paper examines the role of white‐collar crime in the savings and loan crisis. Noting economists' assertions that crime was only a minor ingredient in the crisis, we compare the explanatory power of this “minimal fraud” model to that of its “material fraud” alternative. Bringing together evidence from every major study of thrifts in the 1980s, we argue that only the material fraud hypothesis can make sense of these data. This study demonstrat…
White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal
This article elaborates on the nature and scale of white-collar crime in the savings and loan crisis. It provides an overview of the thrift industry and the impact of deregulation on opportunities for fraud. Violations are then discussed under the general headings of “unlawful risk taking,”“collective embezzlement,” and “covering up,” and similarities are noted between criminal activities of thrift operators and those of persons associated with t…
California's 'Employer Sanctions' Legislation: Now You See It, Now You Don't
The Demise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration: A Case Study in Symbolic Action
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, supposedly designed to protect U.S. workers on the job, was seen by many as no more than a symbolic gesture to labor when it was created in 1971. Yet it has become a major target of deregulation by the Reagan administration. This paper attempts to explain why. I suggest that while OSHA had little immediate, impact on working conditions, it did provide a vehicle for incremental gains by labor, bot…
California's 'Employer Sanctions' Legislation: Now You See It, Now You Don't
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1925
Political Decentralisation and Worker Safety in Italy
The “economic miracle” in postwar Italy was accompanied by a rapid increase in the industrial accident and illness rates. Italian workers demanded occupational safety and health enforcement mechanisms that would be more accessible to grass‐roots workers' groups and unions. In the early 1970s local “Occupational Medicine Services” were voluntarily established in many regions. The entire health care system was decentralised in 1978, giving regions …
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1924
Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case
This paper is a case study of the occupational safety and health provisions of the Italian Workers' Rights Law of 1970, which gave Italian workers the broad right to regulate safety and health conditions at the shop level. The paper traces the political history of this controversial legislation and workers' and employers' responses to it. It then provides evidence that the law was neither the mere "symbolic gesture" nor the tool to "open new hori…
Recent Works on Immigration Policymaking: A Review Essay and Agenda for the Future
The issue of immigration reform has taken a central place on the policy agendas of many Western industrialized countries in the last two decades. Coinciding with this emergence of immigration as a policymaking priority, the quantity of scholarly literature on immigration and immigration law has increased dramatically. The works reviewed here are representative of current research on immigration from a law and society perspective. The purpose of t…
The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
This paper argues that the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 is a composite of contradictory measures. On one hand, employer sanctions are meant to curtail the employment of undocumented workers and preserve the U.S. labor market for legal residents and citizens; on the other hand, special foreign worker programs are designed to enhance the supply of immigrant workers. In an effort to make sense of these contradictions, the author places…
Employer Sanctions Violations: Toward a Dialectical Model of White-Collar Crime
This article examines violations of the employer sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 as a case study in white-collar crime. Using interviews with 103 "immigrant-dependent" employers in three southern California counties, the study reveals that employer sanctions violations are numerous and that violators feel relatively protected from detection and punishment. It then traces both the prevalence of this crime and …
Other's People's Money' Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries
This paper compares what is called here “collective embezzlement” in the savings and loan and insurance industries, tracing this embezzlement by top management in these two industries to structures of opportunity and risk that are specific to their location in finance capitalism. Using data from government reports, congressional hearings, and media accounts of particular cases, we argue that the deregulation of the 1980s combined with protective …
Undocumented Migration to the United States: Irca and the Experience of the 1980s
Postmodernism and Protest: Recovering the Sociological Imagination
Joel Handler's presidential address to the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association examines the intellectual debates that animate recent studies of social change. This talk is his attempt to understand and question these studies of transformative politics which, Handler claims, are deeply influenced by a turn toward postmodernism. After ruminating over the postmodernist argument and its broader intellectual currents as well as its …
Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I.N.S
The Savings and Loan Industry
Crime and fraud were central factors in the savings and loan crisis. Insider abuse was in large part a product of the organizational environment within which thrifts operated in the 1980s. Thrift deregulation in the early 1980s, in conjunction with federal insurance on thrift deposits, produced a "criminogenic environment" in which opportunities for fraud were extensive and risks were minimal. Various common patterns of fraud-"illegal risk taking…
State Interests and U.S. Immigration Policy
White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal
This article elaborates on the nature and scale of white-collar crime in the savings and loan crisis. It provides an overview of the thrift industry and the impact of deregulation on opportunities for fraud. Violations are then discussed under the general headings of “unlawful risk taking,”“collective embezzlement,” and “covering up,” and similarities are noted between criminal activities of thrift operators and those of persons associated with t…
Savings and Loan Fraud as Organized Crime: Toward a Conceptual Typology of Corporate Illegality
This paper proposes a classification scheme for distinguishing “organized crime” and “corporate crime” based not on the occupational position or social status of their perpetrators, but on the motives and methods of the offenses themselves. Using government documents, interviews with FBI investigators and thrift regulators, as well as a variety of secondary sources, it documents patterns of crime in the savings and loan industry and demonstrates …
The State and White-Collar Crime: Saving the Savings and Loans
We attempt to make sense of the law enforcement response to the savings and loan debacle and the larger pattern of white-collar crime enforcement of which it is a part. Drawing from government documents and in-depth interviews with federal regulators and enforcement officials, we argue that the current response to savings and loan fraud is unprecedented both in terms of the extensive resources committed and the prosecution of thousands of white-c…
The Cambridge Survey of World Migration
This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and covers the history of migration to the late twentieth century, when global communications and transport systems stimulated immense and complex flows of labour migrants and skilled professionals. In ninety-five contributions, leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety o…
The Savings and Loan Debacle of the 1980s: White‐Collar Crime or Risky Business
This paper examines the role of white‐collar crime in the savings and loan crisis. Noting economists' assertions that crime was only a minor ingredient in the crisis, we compare the explanatory power of this “minimal fraud” model to that of its “material fraud” alternative. Bringing together evidence from every major study of thrifts in the 1980s, we argue that only the material fraud hypothesis can make sense of these data. This study demonstrat…
Contested States: Law, Hegemony and Resistance
The New Politics of Immigration: Balanced-Budget Conservatism' and the Symbolism of Proposition 187
This paper focuses on the politics of the new immigration restrictionism as manifest in Proposition 187, passed by California voters in 1994. I first show that restrictionist sentiment and immigrant scapegoating have a long history in U.S. immigration politics, briefly reviewing three periods of early nativism: 1870s to the 1890s; 1900 to World War I; and World War I and its aftermath. I then make two principal arguments. First, I argue that the …
Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis
At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received minimal sentences. In the first in-depth scrutiny of the ways and means of this disaster, this groundbreaking book comes to disturbing conclusions ab…
The Savings and Loan Debacle, Financial Crime, and the State
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s was one of the worst financial disasters of the twentieth century. We argue here that much financial fraud of the sort that contributed to this debacle constitutes 'collective embezzlement,' and that this collective embezzlement may be the prototypical corporate crime of the late twentieth century. We further argue that the state may have a different relationship to this kind of financial fraud than to man…
Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain
This case study of immigration law in Spain examines the contradiction between the rhetoric of immigration politics stressing immigrant integration and the reality of immigrant exclusion and marginalization. Drawing from a variety of secondary sources, government documents, and interviews, I show how Spanish policies regularly "irregularize" Third World immigrants. Further, I argue that this legal construction of illegality consigns these immigra…
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