%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°La Polimigra¡±:  A Social Construct behind the ¡°Deportation Regime¡± in the Greater Northwest Arkansas Region
%A Eric Gamino
%A Juan Jos¨¦ Bustamante
%J Humanity & Society
%@ 2372-9708
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0160597617748165
%X This article examines the use of a presumption of illegality by local police officers to enforce a deportation regime in the Northwest Arkansas region. We employed an integrated racialized legal violence model to understand the way officers and immigration authorities collaborate to screen immigrants¡¯ legal status for deportation purposes. Rather than focusing on how collaborations operate from an institutional point of view, the article provided a detailed and rich experiential description of participants¡¯ realities shaped by the interplay of migration policy and local police practices. We concluded that the screening tactics used by local police in the cases considered in this article reflect a form of racialized legal violence intended to enforce a deportation regime against unauthorized people of Latino origin from this Arkansas area
%K police
%K immigration
%K deportations
%K southern communities
%K immigration enforcement
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0160597617748165