Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment

David C. Brotherton is professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His Columbia University Press books include Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives (2003); The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York Gang (2004); Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today (2008); and Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile (2011).Philip Kretsedemas is associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. He is the author of The Immigration Crucible (2012, Columbia University Press) and Migrants and Race in the US (2013).

• 1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David BrothertonI. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations2. Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Bolash-Goza3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An analysis of US Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip KretsedemasII. Producing Deportable Subjects8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh9. Banished Yet Un-Deported: The Constitution of a ‘Floating Population’ of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Boe10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París and Gabriel Pérez Duperou12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement,, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda MartinContributorsIndex

This timely volume takes sharp aim at institutions that continue to marginalize the vulnerable, and, in doing so, it makes important advances for Studies in Transgression. Toward that end, an impressive roster of international contributors demonstrates the global implications of border—and social—control.