Gonzales, Alfonso
Reform Without Justice
Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 220 p.
ABSTRACT
Ten years after the war on terror, the deportation of millions, and the ostensive rise of Latino political power, Reform without Justice provides an analysis of both Latino migrant activism and state migration control as part of a dialectical problem facing 21st- century democracy. This book explains the complex constellation of forces driving migration control policies and the challenges they present for Latino migrant activists and their allies in the post-9/11 era. Drawing on political theory and field research with more than fifty migrant activists and policy makers in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York City, as well as deportees in Mexico and El Salvador, it argues that Latino migrant activists and their allies face a dynamic form of political power, termed "anti-migrant hegemony," that wins consent for state violence against migrants through a race-neutral and common-sense discourse around crime and anti-terrorism. Anti-migrant hegemony is a fluid and disparate force that is exerted in multiple sites of state power, such as local county jails, the U.S. Congress, foreign policy institutions, think tanks, the media, and others. More than any one policy or law, anti-migrant hegemony has led a sector of the public-including some Latino migrant activists and their allies-to support reform proposals that are bound to fail because they ignore the global economic forces driving migration and reinforce the structures of state violence against migrants. The book concludes by discussing how Latino migrant activist and their allies could change this reality and help democratize the United States.
Title Pages
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
1 The State-Civil Society Nexus and the Debate Over the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005
2 The 2006 Mega-Marches in Greater Los Angeles
3 Race, Domestic Globalization, and Migration Control in Riverside County
4 The Geopolitics of the Homeland Security State and Deportation in El Salvador
5 Resisting "Passive Revolution"
6 Beyond Immigration Reform
Appendix Toward a Neo-Gramscian Approach to Latino Politics Research
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Gonzales, Alfonso |
| Subjects |
America Latina
Immigrazione Rivoluzione Passiva Stati Uniti Neogramscismo
Latin America
Immigration Passive revolution United States Neo Gramscism |
