The European refugee crisis has gained worldwide attention with daily media coverage both
in and outside Germany. Representations of refugees in media and political discourse in …

Over the past three decades, sociolegal scholarship on the rights of noncitizens in the
United States has sought to explain rights and exclusions while incorporating new theory …

The new field of deportation studies emerged at the intersection of immigration and security
studies in the early 2000s. Focusing on deportation raises new questions about migration …

During a meeting about immigration with a bipartisan group of members of Congress in
January 2018, President Donald Trump reportedly commented," Why are we having all …

Inside and outside of the sphere of immigration law, liminal legal statuses are proliferating.
These legal categories function simultaneously as a means to effectuate administrative …

This essay provides an overview of immigration from Latin America since 1960, focusing on
changes in both the size and composition of the dominant streams and their cumulative …

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various reports
within the issue on topics including the impact of discourses of migration and deservingness …

Science and technology studies can help to unveil invisible modes of power that are
embedded in the ways conflicts are known, debated, and resolved. Legal forms of …

2 Sarah B. Horton the receiving country. We follow Nandita Sharma in conceptualizing
“global apartheid” as a system of restrictive immigration and citizenship controls that admit …

In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new
interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its …