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Author:   Allison B. Wolf, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Center for Migration at La Universidad d
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781786613332

ISBN 10:   1786613336
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   22 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Seeing Global Oppression in Immigration Policies and Practices – Why We Need A New Approach / Part I / 2. A Feminist Approach to Global Justice/Immigration Justice / 3. A Feminist Account of Global Oppression / 4. Another Side of Global Oppression: Six Faces of Epistemic Oppression / Part II / 5. Dying in Detention: Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, Augustina Ramirez-Arreola, Moises Tino-Lopez and U.S. Immigrant Detention Policy / 6. DACA and DREAMERs – Exploring Deportation Policy / 7. Responses to the Central American Refugee Crisis: Donald Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy / 8. Exporting U.S. Immigration Policy: The Southern Border Plan and Beyond / 9. ¡Nicas Vayense! Nicaraguan immigration in Costa Rica / 10. Venezuelans in Colombia.

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"Allison Wolf's important new book is philosophically rich, expansive in its scope, empirically informed, and hard to put down. Wolf shows that a range of immigration policies enacted not only in the United States, but throughout the Americas, constitute various ""faces"" of global oppression. This explicitly feminist, hemispheric approach to immigration ethics could not come at a better time. --Amy Reed-Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso and author of 'Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice' From a feminist perspective, Professor Wolf brightly unveils the concealed connections between injustice, migration, and public policies. The author exquisitely describes an unjust global order which consistently oppresses vulnerable migrants and isolates them from access to power and resources when forced to cross borders. Just Immigration in the Americas is a thoughtful mixture of profound theorizing and grounded reality in which academic and social impact is guaranteed. --Carolina Moreno Vel�squez, Associate Professor of Law, University of Los Andes, Colombia In this excellent and original work, Allison Wolf provides a much-needed challenge to the overly idealized and U.S. centric approaches to immigration justice. By deploying a feminist-inspired framework that begins from the injustices of current immigration policies, of both the global north and global south, Wolf convincingly argues that these policies form wires in the larger cage of global oppression --Jos� Jorge Mendoza, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington and author of 'The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration: Liberty, Security, and Equality' Trained in the field of philosophy, Wolf (Univ. de los Andes, Colombia) makes an important intervention in philosophical studies of immigration by introducing an oppression-centered model grounded in the work of feminist political thinkers. Philosophers often ignore or undertheorize immigration, while the majority who study immigration usually provide analyses that are irrelevant or disconnected from the realities of the immigrant experience. Wolf highlights how unfairly Latin American immigrants are treated once they cross the border into a new nation--be it the US or another Latin American nation--and juxtaposes their experience and treatment with that of immigrants from Europe and the US. In this expansive and empirical work, the author demonstrates the injustices of current immigration policies enacted in both the US and parts of Latin America, arguing that the systems in place are oppressive in ways that strip immigrants of color of their humanity. Wolf uses her lived experience as a privileged European immigrant in Colombia and also cites monographs; scholarly articles; newspaper, magazine, and online articles; and legal and government documents, such as court cases, as evidence to further her argument, drawing from the works of theorists, philosophers, journalists, social scientists, and government officials. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels. -- ""Choice Reviews"""

Allison Wolf's important new book is philosophically rich, expansive in its scope, empirically informed, and hard to put down. Wolf shows that a range of immigration policies enacted not only in the United States, but throughout the Americas, constitute various faces of global oppression. This explicitly feminist, hemispheric approach to immigration ethics could not come at a better time.--Amy Reed-Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso

Allison Wolf's important new book is philosophically rich, expansive in its scope, empirically informed, and hard to put down. Wolf shows that a range of immigration policies enacted not only in the United States, but throughout the Americas, constitute various faces of global oppression. This explicitly feminist, hemispheric approach to immigration ethics could not come at a better time.--Amy Reed-Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at El Paso and author of 'Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice' From a feminist perspective, Professor Wolf brightly unveils the concealed connections between injustice, migration, and public policies. The author exquisitely describes an unjust global order which consistently oppresses vulnerable migrants and isolates them from access to power and resources when forced to cross borders. Just Immigration in the Americas is a thoughtful mixture of profound theorizing and grounded reality in which academic and social impact is guaranteed.--Carolina Moreno Velasquez, Associate Professor of Law, University of Los Andes, Colombia In this excellent and original work, Allison Wolf provides a much-needed challenge to the overly idealized and U.S. centric approaches to immigration justice. By deploying a feminist-inspired framework that begins from the injustices of current immigration policies, of both the global north and global south, Wolf convincingly argues that these policies form wires in the larger cage of global oppression--Jose Jorge Mendoza, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington and author of 'The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration: Liberty, Security, and Equality'

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Allison B. Wolf is associate professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty at the Center for Immigration at Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia.

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