The White Supremacy to Anti-immigrant Violence Pathway: Deaths of Migrants at the U.S. Southwest Border
College
College of Arts and Letters
Department
Sociology & Criminal Justice
Graduate Level
Doctoral
Graduate Program/Concentration
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract
The work highlights the enforcement of two discriminatory federal policies: Immigration and Naturalization Act 287(g) and Title 42. The central focus is on the connection between federal immigration policy and the harmful practices enforced by the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). In a mixed method analysis consisting of descriptive statistics of fatal encounters at the U.S. Southwest border, a visualization of these encounters using geographic information system mapping (ArcGIS), and a critical analysis of incidents and federal immigration laws, the work seeks to contextualize the reality of fatal encounters located in three states at the U.S. Southwest border: New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The work illustrate how white supremacy reinforces violence from the macro level to the individual level while focusing on macro-level laws and agencies, and the influence on enforcement of these laws resulting in individual incidents.
Keywords
immigration, racial inequality, federal immigration law
The White Supremacy to Anti-immigrant Violence Pathway: Deaths of Migrants at the U.S. Southwest Border
The work highlights the enforcement of two discriminatory federal policies: Immigration and Naturalization Act 287(g) and Title 42. The central focus is on the connection between federal immigration policy and the harmful practices enforced by the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). In a mixed method analysis consisting of descriptive statistics of fatal encounters at the U.S. Southwest border, a visualization of these encounters using geographic information system mapping (ArcGIS), and a critical analysis of incidents and federal immigration laws, the work seeks to contextualize the reality of fatal encounters located in three states at the U.S. Southwest border: New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The work illustrate how white supremacy reinforces violence from the macro level to the individual level while focusing on macro-level laws and agencies, and the influence on enforcement of these laws resulting in individual incidents.