| ID | 113523 |
| Title Proper | Immigrant Il-legality |
| Other Title Information | geopolitical and legal borders in the US, 1882-present |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Coleman, Mathew |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | An argument can be made that US lawmakers' replacement of "deportations" and "exclusions" with "removals", in the mid-1990s, marked a decisive about-face in US deportation and exclusion practice by virtue of the due process restrictions that this brought about for a new class of noncitizens deemed neither deportable nor excludable. However, I argue here that the geography of due process rights under assault in the mid-1990s immigration lawmaking were never that certain in the first place. By reviewing a range of key court cases and immigration control practices from the Chinese Exclusion era through the present, I argue that US geopolitical borders have never mapped directly onto its legal-territorial borders as concerns deportation and exclusion. Nonetheless, I also point to a recent, "neo-classical" hardening of US immigration enforcement by virtue of the disconnect between geopolitical and legal-territorial borders in US immigration law. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 17, No.2; 2012: p.402-422 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol. 17, No.2; 2012: p.402-422 |
| Key Words | Geopolitics ; United States ; Legal - Territorial Borders ; US Immigration Law |