Papers by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2015
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North American Dialogue, 2016
Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, 2016
Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens is an informative and highly readable analysis of the dis... more Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens is an informative and highly readable analysis of the discourse surrounding US immigration policy reforms in the mid1990s. Scholars of US immigration largely agree that the landmark 1996 legislation was highly punitive and disproportionately targeted working-poor labor migrants, especially from Latin America, the Caribbean, and parts of Asia. Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens makes a key contribution to this scholarship with a close look at the debates that shaped the content and passage of this legislation. Drawing on legislative transcripts and media reports, Gerken produces a highly detailed, yet accessibly written text that should be useful to both scholars and students of US immigration politics, as well as to immigration practitioners and policy advocates. The central argument of this book is that debates over US immigration legislation in the 1990s must be understood as part of a broader expansion of neoliberal policy and thought ...
Practicing Anthropology, 2016
Human Organization, 2011
Enforcement-oriented immigration programs have spread rapidly from the United States-Mexico borde... more Enforcement-oriented immigration programs have spread rapidly from the United States-Mexico border throughout the United States interior in recent years, intensifying the vulnerabilities of undocumented workers. In this article, we draw on our ethnographic research with undocumented workers and activists in the Chicago area to examine the expanded use of instruments such as E-Verify, No-Match letters, and federal-local enforcement collaborations. We consider how accelerated enforcement-oriented immigration policies affect the labor relations of undocumented workers in the Chicago area, and we also explore how immigrant labor leaders help workers ward off the short-term effects of punitive immigration policies as they organize for long-term immigration reform.
Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia, 2013
Museums & Social Issues, 2010
Concerns about health and wellness permeate discussions related to the environment among Chicago ... more Concerns about health and wellness permeate discussions related to the environment among Chicago residents. In this article, we draw on interview data and community" stories" to explore how local environments intermix with traditional values and practices to ...
Scholars of unauthorized migration have generally agreed that a lack of legal status can constrai... more Scholars of unauthorized migration have generally agreed that a lack of legal status can constrain undocumented workers’ resistance to their marginalization and exploitative treatment. Yet in recent years, undocumented workers and youth have been at the forefront of immigrant rights mobilizations and have organized around their status as undocumented people. In this article, we explore how the conferral of a conditional immigration status has affected undocumented youth activism. In particular, we show that the implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012 had varied and complicated consequences for youth activism in Chicago—at once stifling the urgency of comprehensive immigration reform and galvanizing efforts to expand and strengthen protections against deportation. More broadly, we consider how prolonged states of liminal legality (Menjivar 2006) bring people more tightly under the purview of state surveillance without removing their vulnerability to deportation.
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Papers by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz