Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Law & Society Review
- Vol. 32 (3) , 529-566
- https://doi.org/10.2307/827756
Abstract
This case study of immigration law in Spain examines the contradiction between the rhetoric of immigration politics stressing immigrant integration and the reality of immigrant exclusion and marginalization. Drawing from a variety of secondary sources, government documents, and interviews, I show how Spanish policies regularly “irregularize” Third World immigrants. Further, I argue that this legal construction of illegality consigns these immigrants to the margins of the economy where they provide what policymakers appreciatively call “flexibility” to the post-Fordist Spanish economy. Finally, I discuss the ways in which racial “otherness,” exclusion, and economic function are mutually constituted, and the role of law in that process.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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