Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity: Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management

This book explores the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges in a controversial criminal immigration court procedure called Operation Streamline along the México-U.S. border. It highlights the connection between micro-level identities and macro-level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, readers gain insight into the strategies used by legal professionals of various citizenship/generational statuses and genders as they participate in a program that exemplifies systemic inequalities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 178 pages
Publication date: 02 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This captivating book delves into the intricate realm of identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges within the context of a controversial criminal immigration court procedure known as Operation Streamline, which takes place along the México-U.S. border. By utilizing this unique setting, the author aims to unravel the complex dynamics that arise when individuals navigate situations where their work-role identity intersects with their diverse social identities, including race/ethnicity, citizenship/generational status, and gender. Through a novel and integrative conceptualization of competing identity management, the book sheds light on the profound connection between micro-level identities and macro-level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and patriarchy.

Through ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, readers gain a profound insight into the diverse identity management strategies employed by legal professionals of varying citizenship/generational statuses and genders, as they articulate their participation in a program that encapsulates many of the systemic inequalities prevalent in the current U.S. criminal justice and immigration regimes. The book appeals to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, critical criminology, racial/ethnic studies, and migration studies. Moreover, with its clear descriptions and references to relevant theories, the book serves as an invaluable resource for students seeking to understand not only Operation Streamline as a specific criminal immigration proceeding that exemplifies structural inequalities but also the broader mechanisms through which these inequalities are reproduced, often unwittingly, by the legal professionals involved.

Weight: 520g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032223926