Reframing illegalities: crime, cultural values and ideas of success (in Argentina)
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DOI: 10.1007/s10611-017-9760-9
Abstract: The expansion and entrenchment of insecurity, organized crime and violence in Latin America has involved the participation of public officials. Without this participation, it would be impossible to create the necessary niches of impunity to… read more here.
Keywords: ideas success; cultural values; values ideas; crime ... See more keywords
“Looking Mexican”: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Latina/o Immigrants and the Racialization of Illegality in the Midwest
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DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spz048
Abstract: Immigration laws, judiciary hearings, and enforcement strategies produce the racialization of illegality, linking “illegality” to homogenized and stereotypical images of “Mexican,” “Hispanic,” and “Latina/o” origin. Immigration scholars have shown the transgressions produced by the racialization… read more here.
Keywords: immigration; non indigenous; racialization illegality; latina immigrants ... See more keywords
Social Centers in Southern Italy: The Caserta Ex‐Canapificio Between Illegality, Migration, and Rurality
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DOI: 10.1111/anti.12285
Abstract: From the 1980s to the 1990s, squatting for Social Centers (Centri Sociali) has developed as radical left activists engaged in occupying empty buildings all over Italy. While most of the occupations happened in big cities… read more here.
Keywords: canapificio; social centers; southern italy; social center ... See more keywords
Who are the “Illegals”? The Social Construction of Illegality in the United States:
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DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4233635.v1
Abstract: Immigration scholars have increasingly questioned the idea that “illegality” is a fixed, inherent condition. Instead, the new consensus is that immigration laws produce “illegality.” But can “illeg... read more here.
Keywords: construction illegality; social construction; illegality united; illegals social ... See more keywords