Book Review: Immigrants under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation

• DOI: 10.1177/1057567719840695
• Published date: 01 December 2020
• Date: 01 December 2020
• Author: Jize Jiang
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

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International Criminal Justice Review 30(4)
Immigration is one of the most contentious and politicized issues today. But, it is also one of the
least well understood. Ong Hing provides readers with the historical overview of immigration
policies and practices aimed at helping them better comprehend how the system has evolved over-
time. He scrutinizes the immigration records of American presidents from Carter to Trump. Ong
Hing humanizes such a complex issue by lending a voice to immigrants to share firsthand accounts
of their experiences with abuse, detention, and deportation. This book is timely, particularly under
the current sociopolitical backdrop. Anyone working in law, criminal justice, social work, and
similar fields will benefit from the knowledge they acquire from reading this text.
ORCID iD
Mercedes Valadez
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2432-5067
Prieto, Greg. (2018).
Immigrants under Threat: Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation. New York: New York University Press.
256 pp. $28.00, ISBN: 9781479821464.
Reviewed by: Jize Jiang
, School of Law, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
DOI: 10.1177/1057567719840695
The recent, drastic and punitive turn in American immigration control has garnered considerable
scholarly attention to the emergence, expansion, and effects of the unprecedentedly vast crimina-
lization of transnational migrants as well as its racial implications and significance. Nonetheless,
relatively less research has focused on how this increasingly tough immigrant enforcement affects
their lives on a daily basis. In a timely manner, Sociologist Greg Prieto draws on his extensive
ethnographic work in immigrant communities to showcase how immigrants have managed and
coped with, as well as navigated through, risks arising in the context of crimmigration. His meti-
culous and detailed ethnographic study has produced the critical work that I review here. This review
is structured in two parts. First, I introduce main arguments of...