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The Immigration Industrial Complex: Why We Enforce Immigration Policies Destined to Fail
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This article provides a genealogy of the idea of an immigration industrial complex. The immigration industrial complex is the confluence of public and private sector interests in the criminalization of undocumented migration, immigration law enforcement, and the promotion of ‘anti‐illegal’ rhetoric. This concept is based on ideas developed with regard to the prison and military industrial complexes. These three complexes share three major features: (a) a rhetoric of fear; (b) the convergence of powerful interests; and (c) a discourse of other‐ization. This article explores why Congress has not passed viable legislation to deal with undocumented migration, and instead has passed laws destined to fail, and has appropriated billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security to implement these laws. This has been exacerbated in the context of the War on Terror, now that national security has been conflated with immigration law enforcement. This is the first in a two‐part series on the immigration industrial complex.
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“Abolitionist perspectives however do not see migration as the problem, but the system that we could call 'border industrial complex' (see Golash-Boza 2009): 'corporate profiteering from borders' (Cowan, 2021), the existence of highly policed national borders that require dangerous and precarious crossings and that create populations made for suffering, violence and death (Schmidt Camacho, 2005).”
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- Authors
- Golash‐Boza, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Kansas (US)
- Corresponding author
- Golash‐Boza, Tanya
- ORCID
- Golash‐Boza, Tanya
- Venue
- Sociology Compass
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-03
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 295-309
- ISSN
- 1751-9020 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2075268101
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 7.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- escholarship.org
- Locations
- Sociology Compass (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Law › Immigration Law and Human Rights
- Social Sciences › Law › Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
- Keywords
- immigration enforcement, irregular migration, criminalization of migration, prison industrial complex, military-industrial complex, rhetoric of fear, otherization, Department of Homeland Security, war on terror
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