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Inside Interior Immigration Enforcement: Understanding Policing and Removals from 287(g) Counties

Kocher, Austin C.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6361-3539
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1309201632

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Geography.
In the past ten years, local law enforcement agencies have increasingly taken up formal agreements with the federal government which allow them to participate in enforcing immigration laws. The most well-known of these agreements is called 287(g). This thesis analyzes the development of 287(g) in Wake County and Durham County, North Carolina, by examining the policing practices that are associated with immigration enforcement and the immigrant removals process. This project uses qualitative data (including interviews, landscape analysis, court room ethnography, and document analysis) and quantitative analysis (based on police documents and census data) to compare policing practices and outcomes related to immigration enforcement. The project shows that local immigration enforcement policies disproportionately effect residents in Latino/a neighborhoods, resulting the arrest and deportation of local residents on the disproportionate basis of minor traffic violations. This thesis contributes to the literature on the geography of state power by demonstrating that immigration enforcement is not only a federal project that targets border regulation, but is a territorial practice which local law enforcement agencies far from the border use to control local immigrant populations and reproduce national boundaries of political belonging.
Mathew Coleman, PhD (Advisor)
Nancy Ettlinger, PhD (Committee Member)
Daniel Sui, PhD (Committee Member)
Richard Lundman, PhD (Committee Member)
147 p.
Geography
immigration enforcement; undocumented immigration; police; 287g; geography; territory; law; mobility; race; racial profiling

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  • Kocher, A. C. (2011). Inside Interior Immigration Enforcement: Understanding Policing and Removals from 287(g) Counties [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1309201632

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kocher, Austin. Inside Interior Immigration Enforcement: Understanding Policing and Removals from 287(g) Counties. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1309201632.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kocher, Austin. "Inside Interior Immigration Enforcement: Understanding Policing and Removals from 287(g) Counties." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1309201632

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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