Inside the State: Bracero Program, Illegal Immigrants and the I.N.S. (After the Law S.) - Hardcover

Calvita, Kitty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415905370 ISBN 13: 9780415905374

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

"Inside the State" takes the reader behind the scenes inside the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) - one of the most secretive agencies in the federal government, and one which wields enormous discretionary power. Kitty Calavita documents the internal decision-making processes of the INS that have shaped US policy, and places the current reform movement in historical and theoretical perspective. Connecting structural contradictions in the political economy to the details of agency decision-making, "Inside the State" aims to provide in-depth analyses of the links between abstract theories of the state and real-life political actors and institutions.

About this title

About the Author

Kitty Calavita is Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She has published widely on immigration both in its social and human consequences and in policy and law. Her most recent book is Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415905370
• ISBN 13: 9780415905374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256