Week 6: The Criminalization of Immigrant Families & State Restructuring
Assignment: Reading Response 2
To Read:
- Abrejo et al. (2017). Making immigrants into criminals: Legal processes of criminalization in the post-IIRIRA era. Journal on Migration and Human Security, 5(3), 694-715.
- Douglas, K. M., & Sáenz, R. (2013). The criminalization of immigrants & the immigration-industrial complex. Daedalus, 142(3), 199-227.
- Jeremy Raff (2017) The ‘Double Punishment’ for Black Undocumented Immigrants. The Atlantic.
To Watch:
- Immigration Nation (2020) [Netflix] Parts 1 & 2
To Listen:
- Serial (Podcast) Season 3
- Episode 4
Week 7: Gender, LGBTQ+, and the Criminal Justice Military Complex
Assignment: Abstract and Annotated Bibliography
To Read:
- Romero, Mary. 2011. “Constructing Mexican Immigrant Women as a Threat to American Families.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family, 37(1):49-68 (20 pages).
- Díaz-Cotto, Juanita. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Chapter 4: barrios and Gangs.
- “LGBTQ Immigrants,” National Immigrant Justice Center.
- Tabak, S., & Levitan, R. (2014). LGBTI migrants in immigration detention: A global perspective. Harv. JL & Gender, 37, 1.
To Watch:
• The Sentence (2019) (HBO/Hulu)
To Listen:
- Serial (Podcast) Season 3
Week 8: The Fight for Survival in the Age of Global Crisis of Capital & The School-Prison-Pipeline
To Read:
- Prashad, Vijay. 2005. “Second-Hand Dreams.” Social Analysis 49(2):191-98 (8 pages).
- Rugh, Peter. 2019. “Plugging NYC’s School-to-Prison Pipeline,”
- Larissa MacFarquhar (2016) Building a Prison-to-School Pipeline. The New Yorker, Dec 12 2006 Issue.
Week 9: Student Presentations: Final Research Paper Topics
Assignments: Student Presentations of Individual Final Research Topics
To Watch:
- Everything Comes from the Streets (2014)
To Listen:
