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Constructing Illegality In America: Immigrant Experiences, Critiques, And Resistance, Daniel Kanstroom, Cecilia Menjívar

Daniel Kanstroom

The topic of 'illegal' immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. From the beginning of its modern invocation in the early twentieth century, the often ill-defined epithet of human 'illegality' has figured prominently in the media; in vigorous public debates at the national, state, and local levels; and in presidential campaigns. In this collection of essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, law, political science, religious studies, and sociology - examine how immigration law shapes immigrant illegality, how the concept of immigrant illegality is deployed and lived, …

Author Meets Critics Session On Aftermath: Deportation Law And The New American Diaspora, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Panelist, The Current Immigration Debate, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Keynote Address, Houston Journal Of International Law Fall Lecture Series, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Deportation Law And The New American Diaspora, Daniel Kanstroom, Mary Waters

Daniel Kanstroom

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How Effective Is Deportation As An Immigration Policy?, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Deportation Nation: Outsiders In American History, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Panel Two: Should There Be Remote Public Access To Court Filings In Immigration Cases?, The Honorable Robert Hinkle, David Mccraw, Daniel Kanstroom, Eleanor Acer

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Aftermath: Deportation Law And The New American Diaspora, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

Since the passage of harsh new deportation laws in 1996, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens--many undocumented, but many others long-term legal residents with U.S. families--back to their countries of origin. The early Obama administration continued such aggressive deportation policies. But few know that once deportees have been expelled to places like Guatemala, Cambodia, Haiti, and El Salvador, many face severe isolation, alienation, persecution and, sometimes, death. Many may never be able to return. Daniel Kanstroom--author of the authoritative history of deportation, Deportation Nation--turns his attention in Aftermath to the current U.S. system and deportation's actual effects on …

Deportations And Repatriations, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Presentations On Aftermath: Deportation Law And The New American Diaspora, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom has delivered several public lectures and presentations to a wide variety of audiences in support of his book, Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, including presentations at UC Irvine Law, University of Amsterdam, the Harvard Book Store, New York Law School, and UC Berkeley Law School.

Immigration Law: Current Challenges And The Elusive Search For Legal Integrity, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

This chapter offers an overview of deep questions about immigration and deportation law and practice. It includes a discussion of recent deportation policies and Supreme Court precedents.

Introduction: Law, Torture, And The “Task Of The Good Lawyer” – Mukasey Agonistes , Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

Following September 11, 2001, there was a challenge to the role of law as a regulator of military action and executive power. Government lawyers produced legal interpretations designed to authorize, legitimize, and facilitate interrogation tactics widely considered to be illegal. This raises a fundamental question: how should law respond to such flawed interpretation and its consequences, even if the ends might have seemed necessary or just? This Symposium examines deep tensions between competing visions of the rule of law and the role of lawyers. Spurred by a controversy over the selection of then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey as commencement speaker, the …

On “Waterboarding”: Legal Interpretation And The Continuing Struggle For Human Rights , Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

While some aspects of the “waterboarding” debate are largely political, the practice also implicates deeply normative underpinnings of human rights and law. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has steadfastly declined to declare waterboarding illegal or to launch an investigation into past waterboarding. His equivocations have generated anguished controversy because they raise a fundamental question: should we balance “heinousness and cruelty” against information that we “might get”? Mr. Mukasey’s approach appears to be careful lawyering. However, it portends a radical and dangerous departure from a fundamental premise of human rights law: the inherent dignity of each person. Although there is some lack …

Deportation, Social Control, And Punishment: Some Thoughts About Why Hard Laws Make Bad Cases, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

From the Author’s Introduction: We live in a time of unusual vigor, efficiency, and strictness in the deportation of long-term permanent resident aliens convicted of crimes. This situation is the result of some fifteen years of relatively sustained attention to this issue, which culminated in two exceptionally harsh laws: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). In many cases, these laws have brought about a rather complete convergence between the criminal justice and deportation systems. Deportation is now often a virtually automatic consequence of criminal …

Panelist, Deportation And Human Rights, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Padilla V. Kentucky And The Evolving Right To Deportation Counsel: Watershed Or Work-In-Progress?, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Panelist, After Deportation: Legal Question, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Remote Access To Immigration Cases: Should The Rules Be Changed?, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Loving Humanity While Accepting Real People: A Critique And A Cautious Affirmation, Daniel Kanstroom, David Hollenbach

Daniel Kanstroom

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Should There Be Remote Public Access To Court Filings In Immigration Cases?, Daniel Kanstroom, David Mccraw, Eleanor Acer, Elizabeth Cronin, Mark Walters

Daniel Kanstroom

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Immigration, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Deportation Nation: Outsiders In American History, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees.

We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don’t? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times.

Deportation Nation is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and …

The Long, Complex, And Futile Deportation Saga Of Carlos Marcello, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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America Goes Global, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Stories From Immigration Practice, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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From The Reign Of Terror To Reigning In The Terrorists: Defining The Rights Of Noncitizens In The Nation Of Immigrants, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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"Unlawful Combatants' In The United States: Drawing The Fine Line Between Law And War, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Immigration, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Immigration Litigation In Federal Court, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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