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“They Look At Us Like Parasites”: The Corporeal Stigmatization and Pathologization of Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost: Immigration Enforcement\u27s Failed Experiment with Penal Severity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article traces the evolution of “get tough” sentencing and corrections policies that were touted as the solution to a criminal justice system widely viewed as “broken” in the mid-1970s.
Miller, Teresa A.
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The psychiatric fix

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Asylum in Practice: Successes, Failures, and the Challenges Ahead [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Workshop on Refugee and Asylum Policy in Practice in Europe and North America was organized to facilitate a transatlantic dialogue aimed at understanding just how well these asylum systems are balancing the dual goals.
Martin, Susan, Schoenholtz, Andrew I.
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
wiley   +1 more source

Under the Radar: Muslims Deported, Detained, and Denied on Unsubstantiated Terrorism Allegations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Through the targeted use of a wide set of immigration and law enforcement policies and actions, the U.S. government has cast Muslims as dangerous threats to national security, leaving Muslim communities across the United States vulnerable to ...
Amna Akbar   +4 more
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Navigating the Algorithmic State: Public Values and Citizens' Preferences of AI‐Driven Public Service Delivery

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public sector increasingly adopts AI‐powered automated decision systems (ADS), understanding how citizens experience and value ADS use in public decision‐making is both normatively and practically important. Therefore, we examine and compare the effects of seven attributes of public values on citizens' support for ADS adoption in two ...
Guimin Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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