Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants1

By C. Menjívar, Leisy J. Abrego. American Journal of Sociology, 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Sara Wakefield
2. D. Kirk

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1. Sara Wakefield
2. D. Kirk
3. Benjamin M Steiner
4. J. Wooldredge

Citations in the corpus

• Collateral Consequences of Punishment: A Critical Review and Path Forward (2018, background): “…on the consequences of punitive immigration policies and deportation in the disciplines of sociology, demography, and migration studies (e.g., Menjivar & Abrego 2012, Roberts et al. 2017), yet the literature on collateral consequences in criminology often speaks to a separate audience than…”
• Becoming DACAmented (2014, background): “As this scenario suggests, exclusion experienced by undocumented persons is multidimensional (see Abrego, 2011; Dreby, 2012; Menjívar & Abrego, 2012).”