Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account

This book offers a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice that defines immigration justice as the identification and resistance of global oppression in immigration structures, policies, practices, and norms. It begins with concrete cases and immigration policies from the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Colombia to assess the nature of immigration injustice and provide a better understanding of how to address it.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

This groundbreaking book takes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, and feminist approach to immigration justice, defining it as the process of identifying and resisting global oppression within immigration structures, policies, practices, and norms. Unlike most philosophical works on immigration that start with abstract ideas and philosophical debates and then make claims based on them, this book takes a different approach. It begins by examining concrete cases and immigration policies from various regions, including the United States, Mexico, Central America, and Colombia, to assess the nature of immigration injustice and provide a foundation for addressing it.

Each chapter of the book starts with specific immigration policies, practices, or sets of immigrant experiences in the United States and Latin America, and then explores them through the lens of global oppression to better understand what makes them unjust and how to respond to that injustice effectively. This book is one of the first sustained studies of immigration justice that focuses not only on the United States and Mexico but also on Central and South America.

By examining the intersection of immigration, gender, race, and class, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by immigrants and their communities. It highlights the ways in which immigration policies and practices perpetuate inequality and discrimination, and proposes strategies for dismantling these systems and promoting greater justice and equality for all immigrants.

This book is a valuable resource for scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the complex issues surrounding immigration justice. It provides a wealth of empirical evidence and theoretical insights that can help inform and shape the ongoing debate about immigration policies and practices in the United States and around the world.

Weight: 336g
Dimension: 220 x 154 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538149843