2. National Insecurities: The Apprehension of Criminal and Fugitive Aliens

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Introduction: Multiple Truths and Privileged Collaborations in a Transnational World 1
4. 2. National Insecurities: The Apprehension of Criminal and Fugitive Aliens 19
5. 3. Unexpected Asylums, Tenuous Futures: Held in Abeyance at a State Psychiatric Institute 34
6. 4. Criminalization of Transgender Immigrants: The Case of Scarlett 48
7. 5. Criminalization of Muslim American Men in the United States 62
8. 6. Immigrants Organize Against Everyday Life Victimization 75
9. 7. Undocumented Latino Migrant Day Laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area: Psychosocial, Economic, and Political Consequences 90
10. 8. “It’s Like You Are a Criminal”: Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Detention 107
11. 9. Hybrid Governance and the Criminalization of Somali Refugees Seeking Social Services in a Midwestern Town 122
12. 10. Filipina Lives: Transnationalism, Migrant Labor, and Experiences of Criminalization in the United States 137
13. 11. The Criminalization of Brazilian Immigrants 151
14. 12. Living with Drug Lords and Mules in New York: Contrasting Colombian Criminality and Transnational Belonging 166
15. 13. Mexico’s Transmigrants: Between Los Zetas and the Iron Fist of the State 180
16. 14. Stigmatized, Segregated, Essential: The Position of Immigrant Live-In Care Workers Vis-à-Vis Formal Social Work Provision in Italy 194
17. Immigrants’ Experiences with Law Enforcement Authorities in Spain 210
18. 16. Creating Criminals: Australia’s Response to Asylum Seekers and Refugees 225
19. 17. Longing to Belong: Undocumented Youth, Institutional Invisibility, and Ambivalent Belonging in Canada 240
20. 18. Migrants and Justice in Qatar: Time, Mobility, Language, and Ethnography 253
21. 19. Resistance to the Criminalization of Migration: Migrant Protest in Greece 266
22. Index 283