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Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit: Bureaucratic Incorporation Of Immigrants In Federal Workplace Agencies, Ming H. Chen
Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit: Bureaucratic Incorporation Of Immigrants In Federal Workplace Agencies, Ming H. Chen
Ming H Chen
Abstract. This article integrates legal scholarship on immigrant workers with social science theory about the role of bureaucracies in the construction of rights. More specifically, it contends that immigrants’ rights can be protected when workplace agencies integrate immigrants into their law enforcement activities, in accordance with their professional ethos and without regard to personal politics. Building on the concept of bureaucratic incorporation, I argue that regulatory agencies will resist contractions of workers’ rights when their staff’s commitments as civil servants and lawyers clash with judicial interpretations of immigrants’ rights. The implication is that strongly pro-immigrant politics are not necessary for …