Jamie Longazel: Undocumented Fears

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p> <i>How the local politics of immigration pit working people against one another</i> <br><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="2370_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Undocumented Fears</h1> <H2>Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania</H2> <h3>Jamie Longazel</h3> paper: $27.95, Mar 16<BR>EAN: 978-1-4399-1268-3<BR><font color=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT><font size=-7><br> </font></p><p class="info">cloth: $74.50, Mar 16<BR>EAN: 978-1-4399-1267-6<BR><font color=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT><font size=-7><br> </font></p><p class="info">e-book: $27.95, Mar 16<BR>EAN: 978-1-4399-1269-0<BR><font color=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT><font size=-7><br> </font></p></p></td></tr></table> <BR> <p class="info">226 pp<BR> 6 x 9<BR> 1 color illustrations<BR></P> <p class="info"><font size=-7> </font></p><p class="info"> </P><BLOCKQUOTE><p> “<i>Using a magnifying lens to study immigrant bashing in his hometown, Jamie Longazel brings into sharp focus the anti-Latino racism at the heart of national politics today. Even as we as a society struggle to build solidarity across racial divisions, powerful forces seek advantage in tearing us farther apart. The concentrated focus of </i>Undocumented Fears<i> helps us understand not only why this occurs but also how we might help replace fear with friendship, social division with a sense of shared humanity.</i>”—<b>Ian F. Haney López</b>, John H. Boalt Professor of Law, University of California–Berkeley, and author of <i>Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class <br /></i> <br></BLOCKQUOTE> <p> The Illegal Immigration Relief Act (IIRA), passed in the small Rustbelt city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 2006, was a local ordinance that laid out penalties for renting to or hiring undocumented immigrants and declared English the city’s official language. The notorious IIRA gained national prominence and kicked off a parade of local and state-level legislative initiatives designed to crack down on undocumented immigrants. <br> <p>In his cogent and timely book, <i>Undocumented</i> <i>Fears</i>, Jamie Longazel uses the debate around Hazleton’s controversial ordinance as a case study that reveals the mechanics of contemporary divide and conquer politics. He shows how neoliberal ideology, misconceptions about Latina/o immigrants, and nostalgic imagery of “Small Town, America” led to a racialized account of an undocumented immigrant “invasion,” masking the real story of a city beset by large-scale loss of manufacturing jobs.<br> <p>Offering an up-close look at how the local debate unfolded in the city that set off this broader trend, <i>Undocumented Fears</i> makes an important connection between immigration politics and the perpetuation of racial and economic inequality. <br> <P CLASS="top"><A HREF="#top">BACK TO TOP</A></P>  <BR>  <h2>Reviews</h2> <p> “Undocumented Fears <i>offers an incredibly rich and insightful analysis of how the political dynamics in a struggling former coal mining town resulted in its becoming ground zero in the raging national debate over immigration. Longazel provides a bird’s-eye view of the politics—racial and otherwise—that led Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to enact laws designed to punish undocumented immigrants, with Latino migrants in the crosshairs. The clash of Latino immigrants with the ‘small town America’ ideal is a gripping story that deserves the scholarly attention offered by Longazel. As some might say after reading</i> Undocumented Fears, <i>‘Only in America.’”</i>—<b>Kevin Johnson</b>, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California–Davis School of Law, and author of <i>The “Huddled Masses” Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights </i><b> <br /></b> <br> <P CLASS="top"><A HREF="#top">BACK TO TOP</A></P> <P> </P><BR>  <H2>About the Author(s)</H2><p> <b>Jamie Longazel</b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Human Rights Center Research Fellow at the University of Dayton and co-author (with Benjamin Fleury-Steiner) of<i> The Pains of Mass Imprisonment</i>. <br> <P CLASS="top"><A HREF="#top">BACK TO TOP</A></P> <p><h2>Subject Categories</h2><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a><BR><A HREF="/tempress/political.html" TARGET="_top">Political Science and Public Policy</a><BR><A HREF="/tempress/immigration.html" TARGET="_top">Immigration Studies</a><BR><A HREF="/tempress/law.html" TARGET="_top">Law and Criminology</a> </p> <P> </P> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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