Class and Classification at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7434262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josiah Mcc Heyman (Michigan Technological University, Houghton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 128-140 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Society for Applied Anthropology (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.60.2.de2cb46745pgfrwh |
| OpenAlex | W2121581052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 34 |
U.S. immigration and nationality law is viewed as a set of classifications that contribute to the transfer of value between classes. An anthropological approach to the symbolic classificatory process is outlined, emphasizing its performance in situations of state power. Ethnographic observations document the actual practice of Immigration and Naturalization Service classification and reveal covert symbolic categories and plausible constructs about migrants. However, migrants are accorded an active role in struggling with and responding to dominant classifications. Three important results of immigration classification are the increased exploitation of undocumented immigrants, categorized as outlaws and obliged to undertake the risk of crossing a heavily enforced boundary; the complex maneuvering and segmentation within immigrant communities induced by the rewards of legal visa categories; and the confirmation of stereotypes about migrants in the dominant society that underwrite their employment as inexpensive labor
Covert · Naturalization · Value (mathematics · Latin American and Latino Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Politics and Society in Latin America
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Unofficial Sister Cities
Border dispositifs and border effects. Exploring the nexus between transnationalism and border studies
The Anthropology of Power-Wielding Bureaucracies
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Walking ATMs and the immigration spillover effect
The Deportation Threat Dynamic and Victimization of Latino Migrants
Violencia estatal, control fronterizo y racialización
The U.S.-Mexico border as liminal space
Theorizing Cross-Border Mobility
Legality and exploitation
Policing the internal Schengen borders – managing the double bind between free movement and migration control
Between a Hunch and a Hard Place
Transnational Homelessness
Managing Security and Immigration at the U.S.–Mexico Border
Trust, Privilege, and Discretion in the Governance of the US Borderlands with Mexico
Processes of identification on the U.S.-Mexico border
Reimagining Otherness, Recreating the Public Space
The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control
Immigrant “Illegality” as Neoliberal Governmentality in Leadville, Colorado
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Oaxacans Like to Work Bent Over”
Grounding Immigrant Rights Movements in the Everyday Experience of Migration
The Rank Effect
Chivalry, 'Race' and Discretion at the Canadian Border
U.S. Immigration Officers of Mexican Ancestry as Mexican Americans, Citizens, and Immigration Police
Supply-Side Sushi
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Citizenship in the Global South
The Punishment/El Castigo
Visa Officers as Gatekeepers of a State's Borders
Crisis of Schengen? The effect of two 'migrant crises' (2011 and 2015) on the free movement of people at an internal Schengen border
La Lucha
Governmentalities of an Airport
Making workers real
Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control
Navigating the US-Mexico border
The economics of state violence
Introduction to Special Issue
As Good As It Gets
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Criminalized Workers
The Classifying and Value-Filtering Missions of Borders
The anthropology of global flows
The Juárez Wives Club
Identity loan
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Willing to Work
Inequality in a "Postracial" Era
"Toward a Critical Phenomenology of "Illegality
Clean fake
Abject Cosmopolitanism
Shadowed lives
Citizenship, gender, and work
Purity and Danger
Border Visions
Models and motives
The Forest of Symbols
Recharting the Caribbean
American dreaming
Undocumented Workers in the United States and South Africa
United States Surveillance over Mexican Lives at the Border
The Social Process of Undocumented Border Crossing among Mexican Migrants
The Social Process of Undocumented Border Crossing among Mexican Migrants
An analysis of public opinion toward undocumented immigration
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Narrative Identities
The Ambivalent Welcome
The dialectics of social life
Envisioning Power
Employer Sanctions Violations
Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire
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Deciding WHO Gets in
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Ethnicity at Work
Nonmarket Labor Processes in an Advanced Capitalist Economy
State Effects on Labor Exploitation
Anti-immigrant Sentiment and the Problem of Reproduction/Maintenance in Mexican Immigration to the United States
The peasants are coming
Respect for outsiders? respect for the law? the moral evaluation of high scale issues by US immigration officers
Putting Power in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy
Transnational Oaxacan indigenous identity
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |