Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Policy Post-9/11

By Anna Sampaio

Book Overview

Immigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics. Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting Latinas/os. Her book concludes with an examination of immigration reform under the Obama administration, contrasting the promise of hope and change with the reality of increased detentions, deportations, and continued marginalization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439912866
• ISBN13: 9781439912867
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"