Raids at Work: Latinx Immigrant Labor Precarity and the Spectacle of ICE Worksite Enforcement Raids

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Research Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-02 DOI:10.1177/10659129231155136

Á. Corral

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Abstract

Why does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conduct worksite raids when employers are rarely ever charged with hiring undocumented immigrant workers? This article shows how exploitative labor conditions and ICE worksite enforcement raids exist in a mutually reinforcing feedback loop that (re)produces precarity for undocumented workers. Analysis of interviews from the Immigrant Workers Project (IWP) Survey of 2018, a community-based participatory action research project in Northeast Ohio, reveals that individuals directly and indirectly impacted by ICE worksite raids understand and experience these operations within the broader context of anti-immigrant labor discrimination and worker exploitation. Although previous scholarship has theorized the role of “spectacle” in various aspects of immigration enforcement a critical analysis of media coverage, public records, and government documents shows how government agencies and the media choreograph worksite raids for maximum public spectacle. The underlying logics of this immigration enforcement tactic highlight how undocumented immigrant workers exist simultaneously as individuals whose labor is deregulated but whose presence is hyper-regulated.

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工作中的突袭：拉丁裔移民劳工的不稳定和ICE工地执法突袭的壮观场面

为什么移民和海关执法局（ICE）在雇主很少被指控雇佣无证移民工人的情况下进行工地突击检查？这篇文章展示了剥削性劳动条件和ICE工地执法突袭是如何在一个相辅相成的反馈回路中存在的，这（重新）给无证工人带来了不确定性。2018年移民工人项目（IWP）调查是俄亥俄州东北部一个基于社区的参与性行动研究项目，对该调查的采访分析表明，直接和间接受到ICE工地突袭影响的个人在反移民劳工歧视和工人剥削的更广泛背景下理解和体验这些行动。尽管之前的学者已经将“奇观”在移民执法的各个方面的作用理论化，但对媒体报道、公共记录和政府文件的批判性分析表明，政府机构和媒体是如何精心策划工地突袭，以最大限度地展示公共奇观的。这种移民执法策略的基本逻辑突显了无证移民工人是如何与劳动力被解除管制但存在受到过度管制的个人同时存在的。

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Political Research Quarterly POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.60

自引率

4.80%

发文量

109

期刊介绍： Political Research Quarterly (PRQ) is the official journal of the Western Political Science Association. PRQ seeks to publish scholarly research of exceptionally high merit that makes notable contributions in any subfield of political science. The editors especially encourage submissions that employ a mixture of theoretical approaches or multiple methodologies to address major political problems or puzzles at a local, national, or global level. Collections of articles on a common theme or debate, to be published as short symposia, are welcome as well as individual submissions.