 | Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity: Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management Subjects: Area Studies; Behavioral Sciences; Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Asylum & Immigration Law; Criminology - Law; Socio-Legal Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Psychological Science; International Relations; Regulatory Policy; Political Behavior and Participation; U.S. Politics; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Social Psychology; Crime Control - Criminology; Criminal Justice - Criminology; Migration & Diaspora; Immigration Policy; Racial & Ethnic Politics; Law & Society; Latino Politics; Ethnicity; Political & Economic Anthropology; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Political Sociology; Race & Ethnic Studies; Sociology of Work & Industry; Crime Control; Criminal Justice; Criminology and Law; Crime and Society; Social Policy; 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. How do individuals negotiate situations in which their work-role identity is put in competition with their other social identities such as race/ethnicity, citizenship/generational status, and gender? By developing a new and integrative conceptualization of competing identity management, this book highlights the connection between micro level identities and macro level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, readers gain insight into the identity management strategies used by both Latino/a and non-Latino/a legal professionals of various citizenship/generational statuses and genders as they explain their participation in a program that represents many of the systemic inequalities that exist in the current U.S. criminal justice and immigration regimes. The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social psychology, critical criminology, racial/ethnic studies, and migration studies. Additionally, with clear descriptions of terminology and theories referenced, students can learn not only about Operation Streamline as a specific criminal immigration proceeding that exemplifies structural inequalities but also about how those inequalities are reproduced--often reluctantly--by the legal professionals involved. 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. |
