Crimmigrant Nations
Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders

Maartje van der Woude (Edited by), Ana Aliverti (Contributions by), Leonidas Cheliotis (Contributions by), Lana De Pelecijn (Contributions by), Steven De Ridder (Contributions by), Simone Durham (Contributions by), Helene O. Gundhus (Contributions by), Zeynap Kasli (Contributions by), Witold Klaus (Contributions by), Agnieszka Kubal (Contributions by), Dario Melossi (Contributions by), Alejandro Olayo-Méndez (Contributions by), Tony Platt (Contributions by), Doris Marie Provine (Contributions by), Rashawn Ray (Contributions by), Juliet Stumpf (Contributions by), Maartje van der Woude (Contributions by), Sappho Xenakis (Contributions by), Zeynap Yanasmayan (Contributions by)

9780823287482

Hardback, published 3 March 2020

416 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.682 kg

As the distinction between domestic and international is increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and external borders, migrants—particularly people of color—have become emblematic of the hybrid threat both to national security and sovereignty and to safety and order inside the state. From building walls and fences, overcrowding detention facilities, and beefing up border policing and border controls, a new narrative has arrived that has migrants assume the risk for government-sponsored degradation, misery, and death. Crimmigrant Nations examines the parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the United States and Europe to offer an unprecedented look at this issue on an international level.
Beginning with the fears and concerns of immigration that predate the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the signing and implementation of the Schengen Agreement, Crimmigrant Nations critically analyzes nationalist state policies in countries that have criminalized migrants and categorized them as threats to national security. Highlighting a pressing and perplexing problem facing the Western world in 2020 and beyond, this collection of essays illustrates not only how anti-immigrant sentiments and nationalist discourse are on the rise in various Western liberal democracies, but also how these sentiments are being translated into punitive and cruel policies and practices that contribute to a merger of crime control and migration control with devastating effects for those falling under its reach. Mapping out how these measures are taken, the rationale behind these policies, and who is subjected to exclusion as a result of these measures, Crimmigrant Nations looks beyond the level of the local or the national to the relational dynamics between different actors on different levels and among different institutions.

Introduction: The "Problem" of Migration
Robert Koulish and Maartje van der Woude 1
I. Border Criminologies
1 Insecurity Syndrome: The Challenges of Trump's Carceral State
Tony Platt 33
2 Migration, Populism, Racism: Between "Old" Italy
and "New" Europe
Dario Melossi 50
3 The Promise of the Border: Immigration Control and Belonging
in Contemporary Britain
Ana Aliverti 68
II. Crimmigration Under Trump
4 The Terrorism of Everyday Crime
Juliet P. Stumpf 89
5 The Trumping of Neoliberal Penality? Trump's Presidency and
the Rise of Nationalist Authoritarianism in the United States
Sappho Xenakis and Leonidas K. Cheliotis 116
6 Trump v. Hawaii: Trumpeting Authoritarianism with Formalist
Analysis and Sovereign Norms
Robert Koulish 134
7 A Path toward Nowhere: The Rise of Enforcement- Based
Immigration Policy
Doris Marie Provine 157
8 Trump Doesn't Tweet Dog Whistles, He Barks with the
Dogs: Crimmigration as a Racial Project through the Lens
of Trump's Twitter
Rashawn Ray and Simone Durham 179
9 Mirrors of Justice? Undocumented Immigrants in Courts
in the United States and Russia
Agnieszka Kubal and Alejandro Olayo- Méndez 198
III. Shoring Up Fortress Europe

10 Euroskepticism, Nationalism, and the Securitization of Migration
in the Netherlands
Maartje van der Woude 227
11 Sorting Out Welfare: Crimmigration Practices and Abnormal
Justice in Norway
Helene O. I. Gundhus 249
12 The Fight against Terrorism in Belgium: Crimmigration Law
as a Counterterrorism Instrument?
Lana De Pelecijn and Steven De Ridder 279
13 How Does Crimmigration Unfold in Poland?: Between
Securitization Introduced to Polish Migration Policy by Its
Europeanization and Polish Xenophobia
Witold Klaus 298
14 Migration Control, Populism, and the Spectrum of
Exclusion in Turkey
Zeynep Kasli and Zeynep Yanasmayan 315
List of Contributors 337
Index 341