Handcuffs and Chain Link: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America

Book 8 of 9: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Gonzalez O'Brien, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0813941326 ISBN 13: 9780813941325

Published by University of Virginia Press, 2018

Language: English

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Handcuffs and Chain Link: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Publication Date

2018

Language

English

ISBN 10

0813941326

ISBN 13

9780813941325

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Near Fine

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Near Fine

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0.9 pounds

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Handcuffs and Chain Link enters the immigration debate by addressing one of its most controversial aspects: the criminalization both of extralegal immigration to the United States and of immigrants themselves in popular and political discourse. Looking at the factors that led up to criminalization, Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien points to the alternative approach of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and how its ultimate demise served to negatively reinforce the fictitious association of extralegal immigrants with criminality.

Crucial to Gonzalez O’Brien’s account thus is the concept of the critical policy failure―a piece of legislation that attempts a radically different approach to a major issue but has shortcomings that ultimately further entrench the approach it was designed to supplant. The IRCA was just such a piece of legislation. It highlighted the contributions of the undocumented and offered amnesty to some while attempting to stem the flow of extralegal immigration by holding employers accountable for hiring the undocumented. The failure of this effort at decriminalization prompted a return to criminalization with a vengeance, leading to the stalemate on immigration policy that persists to this day.

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Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University.

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