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The Morality of Law: The Case Against Deportation of Settled Immigrants Open

Doris Marie Provine · 2014

Political science Sociology

Deportation of settled, but unauthorized immigrants offends a basic sense of fairness that citizens apply to each other in law and private life. Fairness in law includes both forgiveness and closure, which are found in ample measure in the…

Empowering local police to enforce U.S. immigration policy has led to a patchwork of inconsistent measures Open

Paul G. Lewis, Scott H. Decker, Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi · 2013

Political science Sociology Physics

Since 1996, local police departments in the U.S. have gained the power to enforce immigration policies, so that local police may now check arrestees and other persons they encounter for possible immigration violations. Using survey data fr…

Institutional Racism in Enforcing Immigration Law Open

Doris Marie Provine · 2013

Political science Sociology Psychology

The United States is committed to aggressive efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants while honoring its commitment to race neutrality. Yet immigration enforcement has disproportionately targeted Mexicans and Central Americans. The racial…

Institutional Racism in Enforcing Immigration Law Open

Doris Marie Provine · 2013

Political science Sociology Art

The United States is committed to aggressive efforts to remove unauthorized immigrants while honoring its commitment to race neutrality. Yet immigration enforcement has disproportionately targeted Mexicans and Central Americans. The racial…

Immigrants and civil rights in cross-national perspective: Lessons from North America Open

Irene Bloemraad, Doris Marie Provine · 2013

Political science Sociology Economics

The degree to which a nation envisions civil rights as applying to all residents offers insight into its commitment to and capacity for immigrant inclusion. A much-debated question is whether there is a trend toward convergence in national…

Race and Inequality in the War on Drugs Open

Doris Marie Provine · 2011

Political science Sociology

Drug use is pervasive, generally private, and of long standing. The social effects are sometimes problematic, but it is a large step to declare a war on drug use. This review considers how that approach came to be adopted in the United Sta…

No Changing the Conversation? Immigrant Integration Efforts in Metropolitan Phoenix Open

Paul G. Lewis, Doris Marie Provine · 2011

Political science Sociology Business

We examine attempts by public officials and advocates in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area to help integrate and empower Latino immigrants – socially, economically, and politically – in the face of an anti-immigrant political climate…

A Multilayered Jurisdictional Patchwork: The Reemergence of Immigration Federalism in the United States Open

Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, Doris Marie Provine, Scott H. Decker · 2010

Political science Sociology Philosophy

This paper focuses on the immigration-related demands currently being placed on local police in the United States, and the emergence of what we call a “multilayered jurisdictional patchwork” (MJP) of immigration enforcement. The evolving r…

Justice as Told by Judges: The Case of Litigation over Local Anti-Immigrant Legislation Open

Doris Marie Provine · 2009

Political science Sociology Biology

In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level, many American states and localities are undertaking their own legal reforms. The new state and local laws have been challenged by immigrant-rights organizations and i…

ROP volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter Open

Walter Nicgorski, Managing Dennis, William Moran, Peter Moody, Virginia Lewis , et al. · 1997

Environmental science Geography Physics