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Adminigration: City-Level Governance of Immigrant Community Members
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2023
Abstract
The concept of adminigration provides a much-needed lens in theorizing immigration enforcement, citizenship, and urban geographies. We define adminigration as the governance of immigrant community members through city-level policies and programs, whether or not these explicitly focus on immigrants. Our focus on adminigration involves three theoretical interventions: (1) bridging literature on immigrant bureaucratic incorporation and crimmigration to situate city-level administrative practices within immigration policymaking; (2) a focus on how localized definitions of membership, as enacted by cities, produce citizenship, legality, and illegality, and (3) the argument that these practices play out in space, resulting in variegated urban landscapes that are better characterized as a network than a level. We develop these points through a review of the literature on bureaucratic incorporation, crimmigration, citizenship, and the spatialization of immigration policymaking. To illustrate the utility of this framework, we conclude with a case study of adminigration in a California city that we call “Mayville.”
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Earlier versions of this article were presented at the 2022 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting and the “Welcoming Migrants in the City” symposium, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France. We thank Jennifer Chacón, Pooja Dadhania, Els De Graauw, Eunice Lee, Carrie Rosenbaum, and audience members for their comments. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. SES-2017037. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.