Abstract
In this paper we examine perhaps the most significant shift in US immigration enforcement since the militarisation of the US-Mexico border in the late 1980s and early 1990s - the now decade-long transformation of immigration enforcement from an outwards-looking power, located at the territorial margins of the state, into also an inwards-looking power focused on resident immigrant everydays. In large measure this shift in the geography of immigration policing is due to an unprecedented devolution of a once exclusively federal power to regulate immigration to non-federal law enforcement agencies operating in non-border spaces in the post-9/11 environment. We argue that the result of this shift in the 'where' of immigration enforcement amounts to a spatialised tactic of immigrant 'incapacitation'.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 228-237 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Geographical Journal |
Volume | 177 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Criminalisation
- Detention and deportation
- Immigration control
- Post 9/11
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth-Surface Processes