On Detention and Skill

Reflections on Immigrant Incarceration, Bodying Practices, and the Definition of Skill

Bibliographic Data

ID4801745
AuthorsNatasha N Iskander (New York University–Wagner School of Public Service, New York, NY, USA), Natasha Iskander (Wagner College, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume63
Issue9
Pages1370-1388
Publication date2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764219835257
OpenAlexW2923653670
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited38

The use of detention as a tool of immigrant enforcement has grown in the United States and around the world. In this article, I examine the practices used to structure the physical detention of immigrants and explore the role that carceral immigrant control plays as a form of labor market governance. I argue that the same security and detention practices that equate being out of status with criminality are also used to tag immigrants as unskilled. Through the delineation of skill categories, which are vested with certain political rights, I posit that this carceral enforcement of skill categories shapes how immigrants are able to navigate the labor market, with particular attention to the implications for recipients of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) protections

Action (physics) · Corporate governance · Criminology · Economics · Enforcement · Immigration · Immigration detention · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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