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This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: OPERATION STREAMLINE
CHAPTER 2: COMPETING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 3: "YOU MIGHT THINK IT'S UNJUST, BUT IT'S PERFECTLY LEGAL": WORK-RELATED ROLE STRAIN FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS
CHAPTER 4: "HONESTLY, I AM JUST LIKE THEM": THE IMPACT OF RACIAL/ETHNIC SOCIAL IDENTITY
CHAPTER 5: "IF THERE WAS AN INFLUX OF WHITE CANADIAN PEOPLE COMING ACROSS THE BORDER, THEY WOULD TREAT THEM BETTER": NEGOTIATING IDENTIFICATIONS
CHAPTER 6: "I'M AN AMERICAN. THE PROBLEM IS THIS: YOU THINK I'M A MEXICAN": CITIZENSHIP/GENERATIONAL STATUS
CHAPTER 7: "I'LL TRY TO GET YOU A BOY LAWYER": GENDER DIFFERENCES
CHAPTER 8: "THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME": SITUATIONALITY OF SOCIAL AND ROLE IDENTITIES FOR 1.5- AND 2nd-GENERATION LATINO/AS
CONCLUSION
About the author
Jessie K. Finch is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at Northern Arizona University and an Associate Teaching Professor. She studies migration, race and ethnicity, deviance, social psychology, emotions, culture, health, and pedagogy. She has a Ph.D. (2015) and M.A. (2011) in Sociology from the University of Arizona and a B.A. (2007) in Sociology and Music from the University of Tulsa. Jessie has published in peer-reviewed journals such as
Teaching Sociology,
Race and Social Problems, and
Sociological Spectrum and has received grants from the National Science Foundation as well as the American Sociological Association. She is the co-editor of
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert (2016). She has also taught courses on immigration, race and ethnicity, deviance, research methods, popular culture, and happiness.
Summary
This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges.
