@article{ref1,
title="Moralizing regulation: the implications of policing "good" versus "bad" immigrants",
journal="Ethnic and racial studies",
year="2018",
author="Andrews, Abigail L.",
volume="41",
number="14",
pages="2485-2503",
abstract="Recently, the US has dramatically expanded immigration enforcement. At the same time, some advocates have sought to support &quot;good&quot; immigrants. This paper considers how the resulting good/bad binaries affect undocumented immigrants. I examine a case study in Los Angeles, where policing intertwined with protection. Based on participant observation and interviews, I show that respondents believed state agents classified them either as &quot;bad&quot; criminals or &quot;good&quot;, immigrants. To the extent immigrants identified as &quot;good&quot;, they credited the US with offering them &quot;freedom&quot; and hoped for political inclusion. At the same time, in what I call moralizing regulation, they also performed &quot;good&quot; behaviour and distinguished themselves from those seen as &quot;bad&quot;. Some also tied &quot;good&quot; behaviour to femininity and &quot;acting white&quot;. At the extreme, they blamed other migrants for inviting state mistreatment. The effects were ambivalent: while immigrants appreciated US support, they also adopted and adapted to the state's moral norms.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0141-9870",
doi="10.1080/01419870.2017.1375133",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1375133"
}