RACE AND ETHNICITY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
DAY 2 READING LIST
RACE, THE STATE AND IMMIGRATION
Fall 2014
The State and Immigration
This section addresses the modern state’s management of immigration, focusing on policies
and policing. It pays particular attention to (1) how the state polices, controls and constructs
immigrants; and (2) what state practice regarding immigration can illuminate for theories of
the state and, where applicable, race.
De Genova, Nicolas. 2010. “Theoretical Overview: The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty,
Space, and the Freedom of Movement.” Pp. 33-65 in The Deportation Regime, edited by N.
de Genova and N. Peutz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Haney Lopez, Ian. 1996. White by Law: The legal construction of race. New York: New York
University Press.
Inda, Jonathan Xavier. 2005. Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics.
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Joppke, Christian. 1998. “Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration.” World Politics
50(2):266-293.
Massey, Douglas S. 1999. “International Migration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century:
The Role of the State.” Population and Development Review 25(2):303-322.
Mbembe, Achille. 2003. “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15(1):11-40.
Mezzadra, Sandro and Brett Neilson. 2013. “Chapter 5: In the Space of Temporal Borders”
and “Chapter 6: The Sovereign Machine of Governmentality.” Pp. 131-204 in Border as
Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Rodriguez, Nestor. 1996. “The Battle for the Border: Notes on Autonomous Migration,
Transnational Communities and the State.” Social Justice 23(3):21-37.
Rodriguez, Nestor and Cristian Paredes. 2014. “Chapter 3: Coercive Immigration
Enforcement and Bureaucratic Ideology.” Pp. 63-83 in Constructing Immigrant Illegality:
Critiques, Experiences and Responses, edited by C. Menjívar and D. Kanstroom. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press.
Torpey, John. 2000. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, citizenship and the state.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Zolberg, Aristide R. 2000. “Chapter 4: Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy.” Pp.
71-93 in The Handbook of International Migration, edited by C. Hirschman, P. Kasinitz, and
J. DeWind. New York: Russell Sage.
Zolberg, Aristide R. 2008. A Nation by Design: Immigration policy in the fashioning of
America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
The State and Forced Migration
The second section focuses on how the state addresses forced migration in particular. It
concentrates on how the state manages, produces and understands the ‘Other’ of forced
migration – both refugees and asylum seekers.
Agamben, Giorgio. 1998. “Part Three: The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the Modern.”
Pp. 119-188 in Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press.
Ashutosh, Ishan and Alison Mountz. 2012. “The Geopolitics of Migrant Mobility: Tracing
State Relations Through Refugee Claims, Boats, and Discourses.” Geopolitics 17(2):335-354.
Bloch, Alice and Liza Schuster. 2005. “At the Extremes of Exclusion: Deportation, detention
and dispersal.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28(3):491-512.
Bohmer, Carol and Amy Shuman. 2008. Rejecting Refugees: Political asylum in the 21st
century. New York: Routledge.
Hein, Jeremy. 1993. “Refugees, immigrants, and the state.” Annual Review of Sociology
19:43-59.
Jubany, Olga. 2011. “Constructing truths in a culture of disbelief: Understanding asylum
screening from within.” International Sociology 26(1):74-94.
Ong, Aihwa. 2003. Buddha is hiding: Refugees, citizenship, the New America. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
Ordóñez, J. Thomas. 2008. “The state of confusion: Reflections on Central American asylum
seekers in the Bay Area.” Ethnography 9(1):35-60.
Richmond, Anthony H. 1995. Global Apartheid: Refugees, Racism, and the New World Order.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Schuster, Liza. 1998. “Why do States Grant Asylum?” Politics 18(1):11-16.
Soguk, Nevzat. 1999. States and Strangers: Refugees and Displacements of Statecraft.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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Squire, Victoria. 2009. The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Race and the State in Brazil
The third section looks at the intertwined production of race and the state in the case of
Brazil. It addresses this through law and policy, state practice, and political ideology.
Alves, Jaime Amparo. 2014. “Neither Humans nor Rights: Some Notes on the Double
Negation of Black Life in Brazil.” Journal of Black Studies 45(2):143-162.
Andrews, George R. 1991. Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988. Madison, WI:
University of Wisconsin Press.
Cottrol, Robert J. 2013. The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American
Hemisphere. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Da Silva, Denise Ferreira. 1998. “Chapter 10: Tropical Democracy.” Pp. 221-252 in Toward
A Global Idea of Race. Minneapolis, MN: The University of Minnesota Press.
Fitzgerald, David Scott, and David Cook-Martín. 2014. “Chapter 1: Introduction” and
“Chapter 7: Brazil: Selling the Myth of Racial Democracy.” Pp. 1-46 and Pp. 259-298 in
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hanchard, Michael G. 1994. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Hernández, Tanya Kateri. 2012. Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State,
Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Htun, Mala. 2004. “From ‘racial democracy’ to affirmative action: changing state policy on
race in Brazil.” Latin American Research Review 39(1):60-98.
Nobles, Melissa. 2000. Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah. 2009. “Seeing like citizens: unofficial understandings of official
racial categories in a Brazilian university.” Journal of Latin American Studies 41(2):221-250.
Skidmore, Thomas E. 1993. Black Into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Vargas, João Costa H. 2005. “Genocide in the African Diaspora: United States, Brazil, and the
Need for a Holistic Research and Political Method.” Cultural Dynamics 17(3):267-290.
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