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Marginalizing migrants: illegality, racialization, and vulnerability

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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:08 authored by Dean WilsonDean Wilson
This chapter examines how migrant deviance is constructed at the global and local level through processes of control manifested through law and policing. It then talks about the constitutive role of national and local border control agents in processes of exclusion and criminalization. The chapter considers the individual experiences of such control, and how such intensified controls both fabricate and escalate deviance. It further considers the intensified incarceration and deportation of irregular migrants, and how the stigma and criminalization of the deportation experience lingers upon individual identities following their forced return to the global South. The immigration detention complex operates parallel to a wider racialization of imprisonment, fuelled by the gravitation of policing activity towards those whose immigration status may be disputed, and where minor legal violations can result in incarceration and deportation.

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  • Published

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  • Submitted version

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Page range

504-520

Pages

656.0

Book title

The handbook of deviance

Place of publication

Oxford

ISBN

9781118701423

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Erich Goode

Legacy Posted Date

2016-07-12

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