Mapping immigration reform: Theorizing globalization using the immigration discourses surrounding the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection of 2007

• In Event: Immigration Law, Urban Space, and Race: Can We Ever Get Outta This Place?

Abstract

Although the state of Oklahoma appears insignificant at first blush, it serves as a cross-section of much larger forces of globalization.This is best represented through an examination of recent immigration reform passed by the state legislature, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007. The goal of this paper is to theorize a way to use scholarly instruments to begin to remove the belief that globalization only happens elsewhere, only to other people.

Author

• MaryAnn Martin, University of Iowa