Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US

Citizenship regimes are institutionalized systems of formal and informal norms that define access to membership, as well as associated rights and duties. This paper studies illegalized migration as one of the major tests to assess whether citizenship regimes are fair institutions, based on a histori...

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Autores: Mosqueda, Alejandro, Chávez, Rubén, Tigau, Camelia
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Data de publicação:2023
País:México
Recursos:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositório:Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho
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Palavra-chave:Citizenship Regimes
Illegalized Migration
Precarious Citizenship
Immigration
Membership
Regímenes de ciudadanía
migración ilegalizada
ciudadanía precaria
inmigración
membresía
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
title Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
spellingShingle Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
Mosqueda, Alejandro
Citizenship Regimes
Illegalized Migration
Precarious Citizenship
Immigration
Membership
Regímenes de ciudadanía
migración ilegalizada
ciudadanía precaria
inmigración
membresía
title_short Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
title_full Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
title_fullStr Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
title_full_unstemmed Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
title_sort Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the US
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mosqueda, Alejandro
Chávez, Rubén
Tigau, Camelia
author Mosqueda, Alejandro
author_facet Mosqueda, Alejandro
Chávez, Rubén
Tigau, Camelia
author_role author
author2 Chávez, Rubén
Tigau, Camelia
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Citizenship Regimes
Illegalized Migration
Precarious Citizenship
Immigration
Membership
Regímenes de ciudadanía
migración ilegalizada
ciudadanía precaria
inmigración
membresía
topic Citizenship Regimes
Illegalized Migration
Precarious Citizenship
Immigration
Membership
Regímenes de ciudadanía
migración ilegalizada
ciudadanía precaria
inmigración
membresía
description Citizenship regimes are institutionalized systems of formal and informal norms that define access to membership, as well as associated rights and duties. This paper studies illegalized migration as one of the major tests to assess whether citizenship regimes are fair institutions, based on a historical analysis of legislation meant to reduce illegalized migration in the United States between 1995 and 2022. We build our empirical research starting from a simple observation: despite the great number of bills introduced to reduce illegalized migration to the US, most of such initiatives fail to become law. In fact, 93.5% of all immigration initiatives did not even pass the chamber of Congress in which they were originally presented. Such a high rate of failure shows that these proposals are motivated by electoral aspirations, rather than coming from a genuine wish to help migrants or grant them citizenship. Furthermore, there is also an economic interest that justifies the maintenance of low-cost disposable immigrant labor, with no right to citizenship. Our analysis is an example of how state regulation processes seem to work to formalize, rather than alleviate or eradicate, the precarious legal statuses of illegalized migrants. We conclude that a globalized phenomenon such as citizenship requires going beyond merely institutional and formal conceptions. We need to rethink the institutional notion of citizenship, as a merely status held under the authority of a state and consider it from a cosmopolitan perspective and a multilateral basis. But as long as citizenship remains under the responsibility of states, illegalized migrants will continue to experience precarious citizenship.
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spelling Citizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the USCitizenship Regimes and Exclusion: Historical Analysis of Legislation on Illegalized Migration in the USMosqueda, AlejandroChávez, RubénTigau, CameliaCitizenship RegimesIllegalized MigrationPrecarious CitizenshipImmigrationMembershipRegímenes de ciudadaníamigración ilegalizadaciudadanía precariainmigraciónmembresíaCitizenship regimes are institutionalized systems of formal and informal norms that define access to membership, as well as associated rights and duties. This paper studies illegalized migration as one of the major tests to assess whether citizenship regimes are fair institutions, based on a historical analysis of legislation meant to reduce illegalized migration in the United States between 1995 and 2022. We build our empirical research starting from a simple observation: despite the great number of bills introduced to reduce illegalized migration to the US, most of such initiatives fail to become law. In fact, 93.5% of all immigration initiatives did not even pass the chamber of Congress in which they were originally presented. Such a high rate of failure shows that these proposals are motivated by electoral aspirations, rather than coming from a genuine wish to help migrants or grant them citizenship. Furthermore, there is also an economic interest that justifies the maintenance of low-cost disposable immigrant labor, with no right to citizenship. Our analysis is an example of how state regulation processes seem to work to formalize, rather than alleviate or eradicate, the precarious legal statuses of illegalized migrants. We conclude that a globalized phenomenon such as citizenship requires going beyond merely institutional and formal conceptions. We need to rethink the institutional notion of citizenship, as a merely status held under the authority of a state and consider it from a cosmopolitan perspective and a multilateral basis. But as long as citizenship remains under the responsibility of states, illegalized migrants will continue to experience precarious citizenship.Los regímenes de ciudadanía son sistemas institucionalizados de normas formales e informales que definen el acceso a la membresía, así como a los derechos y deberes asociados. Este artículo estudia la migración ilegal/no autorizada como una de las principales pruebas para evaluar si los regímenes de ciudadanía son instituciones justas, con base en un análisis histórico de la legislación destinada a reducir la migración no autorizada en los Estados Unidos entre 1995 y 2022. Construimos nuestra investigación empírica a partir de una simple observación: a pesar de la gran cantidad de proyectos de ley presentados para reducir la migración ilegal a los Estados Unidos, la mayoría de dichas iniciativas no llega a convertirse en ley. De hecho, el 93.5% de todas las iniciativas de inmigración ni siquiera pasaron por la Cámara del Congreso en la que se presentaron originalmente. Una tasa de fracaso tan alta muestra que estas propuestas están motivadas por aspiraciones electorales, más que por un deseo genuino de ayudar a los migrantes u otorgarles la ciudadanía. Además, también existe un interés económico que justifica el mantenimiento de la mano de obra inmigrante desechable de bajo costo, sin derecho a la ciudadanía. Nuestro análisis es un ejemplo de cómo los procesos de regulación estatal parecen funcionar para formalizar, en lugar de aliviar o erradicar las precarias condiciones legales de los inmigrantes ilegalizados. Concluimos que un fenómeno globalizado como la ciudadanía requiere ir más allá de las concepciones meramente institucionales y formales. Necesitamos repensar la noción institucional de ciudadanía como simplemente un estatus bajo la autoridad de un Estado, y considerarla desde una perspectiva cosmopolita y una base multilateral. Pero mientras la ciudadanía permanezca bajo la responsabilidad de los Estados, los inmigrantes ilegalizados seguirán experimentando una ciudadanía precaria.Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM2023-05-30info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmltext/xmlapplication/pdfhttps://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/filosofia-derecho/article/view/1821110.22201/iij.24487937e.2023.17.18211Problema. Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho; Número 17, enero-diciembre de 2023; 121-145Problema. 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