The Racialized Dimensions of Contemporary Immigration and Border Enforcement Policies and Practices
本文指出美国当代移民执法虽无明确种族条款，但实际效果高度种族化，呼吁在公共政策中采用“种族意识”视角，分析其对非白人移民的负面影响，如形成新底层阶级、家庭分离和刑事化。
Abstract Immigration policies in the United States have not been explicitly race‐based since the mid‐20th Century. Nevertheless, the effects of contemporary US immigration enforcement practices are highly racialized. The further development of a “race conscious” approach in public policy and administration will help expand our understanding of the racialized dimensions of these policies and practices. Specifically, I call attention to how current approaches to immigration control disproportionately negatively affect non‐White immigrants from the so‐called “Global South,” contribute to racialization processes, and perpetuate racial inequality in the United States. Examples include the ways that undocumented immigration status is leading to the emergence of a new “underclass” in the United States, the separation and dissolution of Latino families through mass deportation, and the systematic criminalization of non‐White undocumented immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.