Crimmigration

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

The history of immigration to the United States has often been marked by xenophobic and racist policies and perspectives that were meant to exclude and to subjugate people of different nationalities and racial backgrounds. While historical moments of exclusion were largely assessed and regulated based on immigration law and procedures, the inclusion of criminal law into these assessments and regulations marked the creation of a crimmigration system that fused criminal and immigration law. As an arm of the administrative and punitive state, the reach of the crimmigration system has grown over time and increasingly ensnares employers, workers, families, children, and communities. Recent presidential executive orders, increased budgetary spending under The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and new inter-agency collaborations to share personal information have overhauled and amplified the crimmigration system’s investigatory, detention, and deportation objectives and powers. This session brings together a collection of papers that explores the nexus of the crimmigration system under the Trump Administration. We welcome submissions on any aspect of the crimmigration system, as well as perspectives on the legal hybridity of different bodies of law in creating new institutional constructions and agents of inequality.

Sub Unit

• Crime, Law, and Deviance Section / Crimmigration

Presider

• Bryan L. Sykes, Cornell University

Individual Presentations

• No Such Thing as Release: Ghost Criminology and Electronic Monitoring Across the Criminal and Immigration Systems - Gabriela Kirk-Werner, Syracuse University; Mirian G. Martinez-Aranda, University of California-Irvine

• Are Doubly Policed Places Less Healthy? Immigration Enforcement, Policing, and Population Health - Tatiana Padilla, Boston University; Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Crimmigration, Language, and Policing Stops—Evidence from California RIPA - Amalia Mejia, University of California, Irvine

• Impacts of immigration policy attitudes on perceptions of immigrant crime - Daniel Tei, Arizona State University-Tempe

Discussant

• Vicente Celestino Mata, Cornell University

Session Organizer

• Bryan L. Sykes, Cornell University