Immigration American Democracy Subverting Rule Law Robert Koulish 9780415996181

Immigration and American DemocracySubverting the Rule of Law\nAuthor(s): Robert Koulish\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415996181, 978-0415996181\nSynopsis\nWhile the idea of immigration embodies Americas rhetorical commitment to democracy, recent immigration control policies also showcase abysmal failures in democratic practice. Immigration and American Democracy examines these failures in terms of state sovereignty, neoliberalism, and surveillance-based techniques of social control. \n\nThe ideological argument for privatization is not new. But immigration has provided a laboratory for replicating on American soil the sorts of outsourcing travesties that have occurred in Americas war in Iraq. As an outcome, abusive executive powersmany delegated to state and local governments and private actorsare manifested every day in data collection, spying, detention, and deportation hearings, and in many cases bypassing.