The Dark Side of Immigrant Integration Policies

Day Laborers in the United States

Bibliographic Data

ID2245273
AuthorsWalter J Nicholls (0000-0003-4589-5082, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Problems (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/socpro/spz033
OpenAlexW2979174761
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited58

This article uses the case of immigrant day laborers to examine how municipalities develop policies to integrate immigrants. In the 1990s and 2000s, local elected officials adopted integration policies to address the issues raised by the presence of day laborers in their jurisdictions. While first drawing on cases from around the country, the study then homes in on the case of Pasadena, California, to examine the implementation of integration in a moderately liberal city. The results reveal that many officials embraced both disciplinary and punitive tactics, making use of worker centers, aggressive ticketing, and solicitation bans for the purposes of controlling and governing an illegalized population. Some policies institutionalized the subordination of the population and heightened its deportability. The paper complicates the presumed binary between restrictive and integrative policies

Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Political science · Population · Punitive damages · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Demography · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration

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