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The Disappearing State and the Quasi"Event of Immigration Control

Immigration enforcement by sheriffs and police can be characterized as a proliferation of quasi"events which never quite rise to the status of an event. This poses distinct challenges for feminist"inspired scholarship on the state which seeks to document, ethnographically, how the state goes about its business on the ground. In this article we draw on our fieldwork experience in North Carolina and Georgia on sheriffs' and police departments' use of traffic enforcement and policing roadblocks to scrutinize drivers for their legal status, and ask how our ethnographic approach to the problem of state power inevitably stumbles in relation to the ordinariness of these practices. We conclude that feminist scholarship committed to an ethnography of the state could do much more to think through the potentially aporetic quality of that which is our common object of research"”the state in practice.

Resumen

La implementacià³n de leyes migratorias por comisarios y policà­as podrà­a caracterizarse como una proliferacià³n de cuasi"eventos que nunca alcanzan la categorà­a de evento propiamente dicho. Esto plantea diversos retos para la investigacià³n académica feminista que busca documentar, etnogrà¡ficamente, cà³mo el estado opera en el terreno. En este artà­culo, nos basamos en datos de nuestra investigacià³n de campo en Carolina del Norte y Georgia sobre el uso por comisarios y policà­as de retenes de trà¡fico para investigar el estatus jurà­dico migratorio de los conductores. Cuestionamos la medida en que nuestra aproximacià³n etnogrà¡fica al problema del poder del estado es inevitablemente afectada por la cotidianidad de estas prà¡cticas. Concluimos que los estudios feministas comprometidos con una etnografà­a del estado podrà­an considerar mà¡s profundamente la potencial aporà­a del foco comàºn de estudio, que es el estado en ejercicio.

» Author: Mat Coleman, Angela Stuesse

» Source: Wiley

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