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Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity: Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management

Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity: Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management

Author: Jessie K. Finch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032223926
Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges.

How do individuals negotiate situations in which their work-role identity is put in competition with their other social identities such as race/ethnicity, citizenship/generational status, and gender? By developing a new and integrative conceptualization of competing identity management, this book highlights the connection between micro-level identities and macro-level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, readers gain insight into the identity management strategies used by both Latino/a and non-Latino/a legal professionals of various citizenship/generational statuses and genders as they explain their participation in a program that represents many of the systemic inequalities that exist in the current U.S. criminal justice and immigration regimes.

The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social psychology, critical criminology, racial/ethnic studies, and migration studies. Additionally, with clear descriptions of terminology and theories referenced, students can learn not only about Operation Streamline as a specific criminal immigration proceeding that exemplifies structural inequalities, but also about how those inequalities are reproduced—often reluctantly—by the legal professionals involved.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: OPERATION STREAMLINE

CHAPTER 2: COMPETING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 3: "YOU MIGHT THINK IT’S UNJUST, BUT IT’S PERFECTLY LEGAL" — WORK-RELATED ROLE STRAIN FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS

CHAPTER 4: "HONESTLY, I AM JUST LIKE THEM" — THE IMPACT OF RACIAL/ETHNIC SOCIAL IDENTITY

CHAPTER 5: "IF THERE WAS AN INFLUX OF WHITE CANADIAN PEOPLE COMING ACROSS THE BORDER, THEY WOULD TREAT THEM BETTER" —NEGOTIATING IDENTIFICATIONS

CHAPTER 6: "I’M AN AMERICAN. THE PROBLEM IS THIS: YOU THINK I’M A MEXICAN" — CITIZENSHIP/GENERATIONAL STATUS

CHAPTER 7: "I’LL TRY TO GET YOU A BOY LAWYER" — GENDER DIFFERENCES

CHAPTER 8: "THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME" — SITUATIONALITY OF SOCIAL AND WORK-RELATED ROLE IDENTITIES FOR 1.5- AND SECOND-GENERATION LATINO/AS

CONCLUSION