Philip Kretsedemas: 2 books
The Immigration Crucible
Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. Philip Kretsedemas examines this development from several different perspectives, exploring recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal state power over the...
Migrants and Race in the US
Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the nation. In the...