Immigration and American Democracy

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ID19915804
AuthorsRobert Koulish (0000-0003-1661-3744, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-02-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueImmigration and American democracy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203883228
OpenAlexW4239226504
Open LibraryOL40307282M
ISBN9780203883228
LanguageEN
Citations received16

While the idea of immigration embodies America’s rhetorical commitment to democracy, recent immigration control policies also showcase abysmal failures in democratic practice. Immigration and American Democracy examines these failures in terms of state sovereignty, neoliberalism, and surveillance-based techniques of social control. The ideological argument for privatization is not new. But immigration has provided a laboratory for replicating on American soil the sorts of outsourcing travesties that have occurred in America’s war in Iraq. As an outcome, abusive executive powers—many delegated to state and local governments and private actors—are manifested every day in data collection, spying, detention, and deportation hearings, and in many cases bypassing the Constitution. The practice of privatization extends this leviathan immigration state by clamping down on civil liberties without having to oblige the courts. Ultimately, Koulish examines the contested terrain between democratic and undemocratic forces in the immigration policy domain and concludes with recommendations for how democratic forces might well still win out

Democracy · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Race, History, and American Society · emigration and immigration

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