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Title: Immigration and Blackness: What’s Race Got to Do With It?

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: The increase in detention of immigrants of African descent is, in part, a result of racial profiling, which mirrors the overrepresentation of African Americans in the criminal justice system due to mass incarceration. Failing to pay attention to the nuances of immigration law and policy and its impact on immigrants of African descent is dangerous in that it hinders a comprehensive understanding of how racism has operated in the U.S. legal system and how it continues to operate in many facets of immigration laws. This article examines the nuances at the intersection of race and immigration status. The goal is to examine the impact of recent immigration policies on immigrants of African descent in order to highlight where the law operates in furtherance of the goal preventing the blackening and browning of America. When we examine the history of immigration and its impact on immigrants of African descent, we learn how the law can amplify social norms and create a system that perpetuates tiered personhood—and how permitting discriminatory anti-immigrant laws and policies reinforces dangerous and divisive systems of oppression

Url: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2122&context=faculty-publications

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Authors: McKanders, Karla

Periodical (Full): Human Rights

Issue: 44

Volume: 1

Pages: 20-23

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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