Undocumented immigrants at work
Invisibility, hypervisibility, and the making of the modern slave
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22232245 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paulina Segarra (0000-0003-1710-4458, Universidad Anáhuac), Ajnesh Prasad (0000-0002-4368-1796, Tecnológico de Monterrey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2662-9992 • E-ISSN: 2662-9992 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41599-023-02449-5 |
| OpenAlex | W4390534636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 64 |
The undocumented immigrant represents a socio-legal category, referring to a subject who does not have legal standing to be in the country in which they are located. Extending from their lack of legal standing, undocumented immigrant workers in the United States occupy spaces marked by extreme conditions of vulnerability, which were exacerbated by the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016. The aim of this ethnographic study is to make sense of the experiences of undocumented immigrants under a particularly vicious political rhetoric. Studying the lives of Latinx undocumented immigrant workers in the U.S., our findings capture how the dynamic interplay between the types of labor that they undertake and the socio-legal identity they are attributed function together to systematically disenfranchise them. Specifically, we explicate how doing invisible labor while, at the same time, occupying a hypervisible identity culminates in extreme conditions of vulnerability. In addition to developing the concept of hypervisible identity, we also inform theory on the idea of modern slavery. We contend that without the existence of invisible labor and hypervisible identity performing as interlocking, constitutive precursors, some forms of modern slavery would be negated
Aesthetics · Ethnography · Immigration · Invisibility · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · Anthropology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Interpersonal Sensemaking and the Meaning of Work
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Managing the margins
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Donald Trump and Trumpism
Colonization, migration, and right-wing extremism
Invisible Work, Invisible Workers
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Migrant agency
Immigration, Crime, and Victimization
Violence Against Immigrant Women
The Discourse of the Illegal Immigration Debate
Congruence work in stigmatized occupations
White nationalism, armed culture and state violence in the age of Donald Trump
Unauthorized immigrant students in the United States
How Does Corporeality Inform Theorizing? Revisiting Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
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Introduction
How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? Critiquing the concept of dirty work
Undocumented Immigration
Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime
Undocumented Immigrants as Perceived Criminal Threat
The Politics of Refuge
Governance gaps in eradicating forced labor
Integration against the state
Deterring Wage Theft
The Meta-violence of Trumpism
Discipline and Punish
Precarious Work, Insecure Workers
Invisible Work
The Psychic Life of Power
The risk of 'going observationalist
Doing the Dirty Work
State Effects on Labor Exploitation
New Scenes of Vulnerability, Agency and Plurality
The Deportation Threat Dynamic and Victimization of Latino Migrants
Legal Violence
Liminal Legality
Invisible capitalism
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |