Immigration, Risk, and Security Under the Trump Administration

Keeping 'Undesirables' Out
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-981-19-2343-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 163 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

This book explores the immigration policies and practices of the Trump administration, with a specific focus on Trump’s travel ban and the wall along the southern border with Mexico. Both were enacted shortly after Trump was elected President. It examines how the Trump administration defined and represented immigration as an issue of national security and why it sought to address the perceived security challenges posed by immigration through the specific forms of a travel ban and a wall along the southern border. The main argument advanced is that a logic of risk underpinned the Trump administration’s approach to immigration and national security. Employing the framework of riskisation, this book explores the embodied, racialised, and gendered construction and representation of risk, political and popular resistance to Trump’s wall and travel ban, and the social and political consequences of both.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clapton, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Risk and Security.- 3 Risk and Security in the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations.- 4 Trump’s Travel Ban.- 5 A Big, Beautiful Wall.- 6 Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

William Clapton is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at UNSW Sydney. He is the author of Risk and Hierarchy in International Society: Liberal Interventionism in the Post-Cold Era (Palgrave, 2014) and has published articles in the European Journal of International Security, International Relations; International Politics; and Politics.