The recent salience of immigration as an issue has led to more restrictive policies toward immigrants in many settings. This special issue brings together scholars from multiple disciplines and presents a collection of articles that investigates the nature of immigration enforcement, examines the actors and institutions involved, and uncovers some of the consequences for immigrants and communities. This introductory article takes stock of the main findings and makes a case for future work to (a) include multiple sites and units of analysis, (b) consider the perspectives of on-the-ground enforcement agents, and (c) integrate the study of immigration enforcement to other subfields within and across disciplines.
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AlbaR. D. (2009). Blurring the color line: The new chance for a more integrated America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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AlsanM.YangC. (2018). Fear and the safety net: Evidence from secure communities. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from http://www.nber.org/papers/w24731
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Amuedo-DorantesC.Arenas-ArroyoE. (2018). Immigration enforcement and children’s living arrangements. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 38, 11-40. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22106
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Amuedo-DorantesC.BansakC. (2012). The labor market impact of mandated employment verification systems. American Economic Review, 102, 543-548. doi:10.1257/aer.102.3.543
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AndreasP.BierstekerT. J. (2003). The rebordering of North America. New York, NY: Routledge.
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ArmentaA. (2012). From sheriff’s deputies to immigration officers: Screening immigrant status in a Tennessee jail. Law & Policy, 34, 191-210.
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ArmentaA. (2016). Racializing crimmigration structural racism, colorblindness, and the institutional production of immigrant criminality. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 3, 82-95.
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AsadA. L.ClairM. (2018). Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health. Social Science & Medicine, 199, 19-28. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.010
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BohnS.LofstromM.RaphaelS. (2015). Do e-verify mandates improve labor market outcomes of low-skilled native and legal immigrant workers?Southern Economic Journal, 81, 960-979. doi:10.1002/soej.12019
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ComfortM. (2007). Punishment beyond the legal offender. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 3, 271-296. doi:10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.3.081806.112829
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DeeT.MurphyM. (2018). Vanished classmates: The effects of local immigration enforcement on student enrollment (Working Paper 25080). Retrieved from https://www.nber.org/papers/w25080.pdf
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EppC. R.Maynard-MoodyS.Haider-MarkelD. P. (2014). Pulled over: How police stops define race and citizenship. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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Golash-BozaT. (2015). Deported: Policing immigrants, disposable labor and global capitalism. New York: New York University Press.
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GriffithK. L. (2011). Discovering “immployment” law: The constitutionality of subfederal immigration regulation at work. Yale Law & Policy Review, 29, 389-451.
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GulasekaramP.RamakrishnanS. K. (2015). The new immigration federalism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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HernandezK. L. (2010). Migra! A history of the U.S. border patrol. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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IfftJ.JodlowskiM. (2016, July-August). Is ICE freezing US agriculture? The impact of local immigration enforcement on farm profitability and structure. Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Retrieved from https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/agsaaea16/235950.htm
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Macias-RojasP. (2016). From deportation to prison: The politics of immigration enforcement in post-civil rights America. New York: NYU Press.
MenjivarC.BejaranoC. (2004). Latino immigrants’ perceptions of crime and police authorities. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27, 129-142.
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MenjívarC.SimmonsW. P.AlvordD.ValdezE. S. (2018). Immigration enforcement, the racialization of legal status, and perceptions of the police: Latinos in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Phoenix in comparative perspective. Du Bois Review, 15, 107-128. doi:10.1017/S1742058X18000115
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MotomuraH. (2010). The rights of others: Legal claims and immigration outside the law. Duke Law Journal, 59, 1723-1786.
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MountzA. (2011). The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on Islands. Political Geography, 30, 118-128. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.01.005
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NevinsJ. (2002). Operation gatekeeper: The rise of the “illegal alien” and the making of the US-Mexico boundary. New York, NY: Routledge.
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NgaiM. M. (2004). Impossible subjects: Illegal aliens and the making of modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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OrreniusP. M.ZavodnyM. (2015). The impact of temporary protected status on immigrants’ labor market outcomes. American Economic Review, 105, 576-580. doi:10.1257/aer.p20151109
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PhamH.VanP. H. (2010). The economic impact of local immigration regulation: An empirical analysis. Cardozo Law Review, 32, 485.
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PotochnickS.ChenJ.-H.PerreiraK. (2017). Local-level immigration enforcement and food insecurity risk among Hispanic immigrant families with children: National-level evidence. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 19, 1042-1049. doi:10.1007/s10903-016-0464-5
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RughJ. S.HallM. (2016). Deporting the American dream: Immigration enforcement and Latino foreclosures. Sociological Science, 3, 1053-1076.
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StumpfJ. P. (2006). The crimmigration crisis: Immigrants, crime, and sovereign power. American University Law Review, 56, 367-419.
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TorcheF.SiroisC. (2018). Restrictive Immigration law and birth outcomes of immigrant women. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188, 24-33. doi:10.1093/aje/kwy218
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VargasE. D.SanchezG. R.JuárezM. (2017). The impact of punitive immigrant laws on the health of Latina/o populations. Politics & Policy, 45, 312-337. doi:10.1111/polp.12203
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