Immigration Control as a (False) Security Measure

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ID2369975
AuthorsJohn L Hammond (Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume37
Issue6
Pages739-761
Publication date2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920511399806
OpenAlexW2019519426
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited41

US immigration policy as defined during the administration of George W. Bush was the result of a moral panic against two categories of immigrants: Latin Americans who cross the Mexican border clandestinely in search of work and Muslims and Arabs whom the administration defines as potential terrorists. The policy harms both groups and threatens national security. Antiterrorist measures are counterproductive because they create sympathy to terrorism in law-abiding Muslim and Arab immigrants; border control measures are counterproductive because, far from deterring illegal immigration, they encourage longer stays, family migration, and dispersion throughout the USA, and endanger the lives of those entering the country through inaccessible and dangerous border areas

Criminology · Development economics · Economics · Immigration · Immigration law · Immigration policy · Latin Americans · National security · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Sympathy · Terrorism · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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