Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging

by Bosworth, Mary; Parmar, Alpa; Vazquez, Yolanda

• ISBN13: 9780198814887
• ISBN10: 0198814887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-03-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mary Bosworth, Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia,Alpa Parmar, Senior research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology,Yolanda Vazquez, Associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law

Mary Bosworth is Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She is Assistant Director of the Centre for Criminology and Director of Border Criminologies, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the intersections between criminal justice and border control. She conducts research into the ways in which prisons and immigration detention centres uphold notions of race, gender, and citizenship and how those who are confined negotiate their daily lives. Her research is international and comparative and has included work conducted in Paris, Britain, the USA, and Australia. She is currently heading a five-year project, 'Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a Global Age', funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, as well as a Leverhulme International Network on External Border Control.

Alpa Parmar read Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and then completed her doctorate (University of Cambridge) in which she empirically examined perceptions of Asian criminality in the UK. Following this she held a British Academy Postdoctoral fellowship at King's College London in which she researched police stop and search practices under the Terrorism Act 2000 and the consequences of counterterrorist polices for minority ethnic groups, particularly British Asian people. Her research considers the theoretical implications of security practices upon notions of belonging and ethnic identity, and multi-cultural citizenry. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she was a visiting scholar at Berkeley, University of California, at which time she conducted a comparative policing study on stop and search and stop and frisk.

Yolanda Vázquez is an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Her research examines the intertwined relationship between immigration law and the criminal justice system. Her scholarship has focused on the role of US criminal courts and the duties of defence lawyers in advising non-citizen defendants on the immigration consequences of a criminal conviction.

Table of Contents

Prologue Steve Garner
Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging, Mary Bosworth, Alpa Parmar, and Yolanda Vázquez
I. RACE, BORDERS, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
1. Race, Gender, and Surveillance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia, Maggy Lee, Mark Johnson, and Mike McCahill
2. Portrait of a Human Smuggler: Race, Class, and Gender among Facilitators of Irregular Migration on the US Mexico Border, Gabriella Sanchez
3. Gender, Race, and the Cycle of Violence of Female Asylum Seekers from Honduras, Lirio Gutierrez Rivera
II. RACE, POLICING, AND SECURITY
4. Racism, Immigration, and Policing, Ben Bowling and Sophie Westenra
5. Race, Gender, and Border Control in the Western Balkans, Sanja Milivojevic
6. Visible Policing of Subjects and Low-Visibility Policing: Migration and Race in Australia, Louise Boon-Kuo
7. Policing Belonging: Race and Nation in the UK, Alpa Parmar
III. RACE, COURTS, AND THE LAW
8. Strangers in our Midst: The Construction of Difference through Cultural Appeals in Criminal Justice Litigation, Ana Aliverti
9. Enforcing the Politics of Race and Identity in Migration and Crime Control Policies, Yolanda Vazquez
10. Racialization Through Enforcement, Jennifer M. Chacon and Susan Bibler Coutin
11. Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence, Eddie Bruce-Jones
IV. RACE, DETENTION, AND DEPORTATION
12. Understanding Muslim Prisoners through a Global Lens, Hindpal Singh Bhui
13. 'Working in this place turns you racist': Staff, Race, and Power in Detention, Mary Bosworth
14. Raced and Gendered Logics of Immigration Law Enforcement in the United States, Tanya Golash-Boza
Epilogue: When Citizenship Means Race Emma Kaufman