Border Brokers: Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics PDF
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BORDER BROKERS CHRISTINA M. GETRICH BORDER BROKERS Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics The University of Arizona Press www .uapress .arizona .edu © 2019 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. Published 2019 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 8165- 3899- 7 (cloth) Cover design by Leigh McDonald Cover photo by Matthew C. Wright Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available at the Library of Congress. Printed in the United States of America ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 1. Increasingly Anti- immigrant Public Policies and Their Impact on Mixed- Status Families 37 2. Conceptualizing Citizenship and Illegality 59 3. Contending with the Repercussive Effects of Illegality and Deportability 91 4. Embodying and Contesting the Effects of Racialized Enforcement 117 5. Tracing Different Trajectories of Transborder Life 140 6. Brokering Belonging in the Shadow of the State 169 Conclusion 197 Appendix A: Conducting Research with Borderland Young Adults 209 Appendix B: Participants 217 Abbreviations 219 Notes 221 References 225 Index 245 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. The westernmost segment of the U.S.-Mexico border ending in the Pacific Ocean, dividing San Diego and Tijuana 26 2. A typical home in the southeast San Diego barrio 30 3. The barrio, in the shadow of San Diego and encroaching development 32 4. The second layer of border fencing and stadium-style lighting in the San Diego sector of the border 46 5. A young protestor demonstrates his Mexican and American heritage and pride during the immigrant rights protests of 2006 60 6. Protestors at the May 1 “Day Without an Immigrant” protest at the U.S.-Mexico border 81 7. A uniformed Border Patrol officer stands guard by an apartment complex and shopping mall close to the border on the U.S. side 102 8. Approaching the San Ysidro Port of Entry from the U.S. side 119 9. Approaching the inspection booth at the San Ysidro Port of Entry from the Mexican side of the border crossing 128 10. A Border Patrol sports utility vehicle stands guard at Friendship Park on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border 201 PREFACE DURING THE fifteen years that I have been working on this project, immi- gration policymaking has increasingly become an almost daily news headline—somewhat ironically, given the lack of any actual federal immigration-reform legislation being passed during this period. Rapidly changing developments regarding immigration make it inherently challeng- ing to write a book on the topics of immigration policies, border enforcement practices, and the life experiences of members of mixed-status families. Indeed, changing circumstances have on several occasions forced revision to parts of the manuscript that become suddenly out of date or not in alignment with the new sociopolitical realities of the moment. I have attempted to keep the book current with general changes and developments throughout the production process. As this book goes to press, we will be approaching the midpoint of the Trump presidency; during this interval, significant changes to immigration have been taking place through executive orders, congressional budget allocations, and changes to how immigration policies are executed. Indeed, even without making major official legislative changes, Trump is nonetheless “building a border wall that no one can see” by wielding executive authority to make major bureau- cratic changes such as ending the provisional residency of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders (Sacchetti and Miroff 2017) and expanding enforcement targets, sharp- ening enforcement tools, and widening enforcement locations (Murray 2017).
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