2014 Chester Rapkin Award for Best Article in Volume 33: 'Shadow Transnationalism: Cross-Border Networks and Planning Challenges of Transnational Unauthorized Immigrant Communities'

摘要

Estimates place the unauthorized population in the United States at about 11.2 million (Passel and Cohn 2011; Krogstad and Passel 2014). Both proponents and opponents of comprehensive immigration reform seem to agree that our immigration system is broken, but the key lesson I learned from studying Postville, Iowa, is that our immigration system functions: It functions to maintain a marginalized population in a state of deportation risk. It perpetuates vulnerability and inequality and criminalizes a population that is forced to live in fear within the shadows of our society.