期刊名称：ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
印刷版ISSN：1492-9732
出版年度：2007
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：1-35
语种：English
出版社：ACME: Eine internationale Internet-Zeitschrift für kritische Geographie
摘要：Millions of people across the United States took to the streets in spring 2006 to protest repressive immigration legislation, demand just immigration reform, and seek justice in daily life. This article has two aims. First, we seek to intervene in the popular immigration debate, which denies racism and claims to be concerned only with law-and-order. Second, we analyze (im)migration politics in relation to national racial formations. That is, racialized immigration policies do not exist apart from a racially stratified citizenry. We rely on the concept of social death to trace state policies of immigration and criminalization as key sites of interracial and transnational struggles against racism and for justice and liberation. Thus, we seek to elucidate possibilities for anti-racist alliances and social change. We conclude with a discussion of the ways in which we see the immigrants rights movement connecting with other struggles for social justice, and the implications that concepts of national racial formation and social death have for the movement against global apartheid.
关键词：immigrant rights;racism;national racial formation;social death;criminalization;militarization;immigrants’ Rights;immigrants;Southern California
