A Confluence of Interests in Immigration Enforcement
How Politicians, the Media, and Corporations Profit from Immigration Policies Destined to Fail
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya Golash-Boza (0000-0002-1952-175X, University of Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-294 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00192.x |
| OpenAlex | W2082752979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 7 |
The concept of an immigration industrial complex draws from previous work on the prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex. All three of these complexes point to the ways that the interests of government bureaucracies, corporate elites, and politicians shape laws and policies. This article explains how the undocumented status of migrants provides advantages to at least three groups: (a) media pundits who make their careers railing against ‘illegal aliens’; (b) politicians who use undocumented migrants as scapegoats; and (c) contractors who profit from massive immigration enforcement expenditures. The disenfranchised status of undocumented migrants enhances the ability of each of these groups to benefit from their presence. This confluence of interests explains why Congress has not enacted viable immigration policies that effectively deal with the ‘problem’ of illegal immigration. This is the second in a two‐part series on the immigration industrial complex
Bureaucracy · Criminology · Economics · Enforcement · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Immigration law · Immigration policy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prison · Profit (economics · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users
The inconsistency of immigration policy
Subordinating Myth
Unauthorized Migrants and the (Il)Logic of “Crime Control”
Moral panic as racial degradation ceremony
Model (undocumented) minorities and “illegal” immigrants
Childhood immigration enforcement exposure and young adults’ anxiety
The private harms of detention
Mothers, babies, and abortion at the border
Prison and Immigration Industrial Complexes
Toward a political sociology of privatized punishment
The pains of immigrant imprisonment
The Complex Sources of Immigration Control
Identifying abolitionist alignments in community psychology
Anti-Immigrant Anxieties in State Policy
Private Detention and the Immigration Industrial Complex
Cheap Merchandise
Les mobilités et la dynamique du pouvoir dans les lieux d’enfermement
A 'distributive regime
Performing Homeland Security within the US Immigrant Detention System
Newspaper Media Framing of the Immigrant Workforce in the Context of Florida's 2023 Immigration Law
Where Have All the (White and Hispanic) Inmates Gone? Comparing the Racial Composition of Private and Public Adult Correctional Facilities
Willing to Work
Criminalized Workers
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |