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Introduction: Black Interdictions -- Navigating the Chasm: Antiblackness, Mobilities, and the Law -- Sovereign Bodies and the Law: A Pre-History of the Antiblack Racism Underlying the US Government's Haitian Refugee Policies -- Radical Exclusion -- Challenging the Interdictions -- Reconfiguring the Black/Nonblack Binary: The Radical Exclusion of Haitian and Cuban Refugees in the Era of Operation Sea Signa -- The Radical Exclusion of Haitian, African and Central American Refugees in the Trump Era -- A Legal Strategy for the End of the World, and Beyond.

pt. 1. Testing the limits of multiculturalism -- pt. 2. Manufacturing exclusion : anti immigrant politics and policies -- pt. 3. Gendered peripheries : emigrants, asylum seekers and the feminization of migrant marginality -- pt. 4. Immigrant identities and the politics of race and nativity -- pt. 5. Where to, beyond the margin?

Introduction: an untimely intervention on the U.S. immigration debate: puzzling evidence: the contradictions of immigration enforcement and the politics of immigration policy; immigrants and state power: on the margins of the law -- A different kind of immigration, a new kind of statelessness -- The secret life of the state -- Concerned citizens, local exclusions: local immigration laws and the legacy of Jim Crow -- Race, nation, immigration: stranded at the crossroads of liberal thought -- Conclusion: the immigration crucible: immigration policy and enforcement under the Obama Administration; immigration policy, national identity, and the limits of executive authority

The inaugural issue of Genealogy offers an ambitious selection of essays which provide several answers to the question "What is Genealogy?" Each essay could easily have appeared in a different journal, specializing in philosophy, family studies and communication, race and ethnicity studies, political sociology or the cultural study of science and technology.[...]

Genealogy is an open-access, quarterly journal that publishes original research and theory online immediately after it has completed the review process. The journal will serve as a venue for cutting edge contributions to the field of genealogy studies; making this scholarly work available to the broadest possible reading audience in a timely manner. [...]

This article explores the changing form of white and black racial categories in North America. It argues that this transformation is being shaped by several, relatively distinct tendencies; including anti-immigrant sentiments, anti-black racism and the identity politics of racialized populations. The discussion focuses on two aspects of this transformation. First, the identity politics of Afro-Caribbean populations is used to illustrate how immigrant experiences contest and complicate the process of black racialization; second, the racialization of Latino populations is used to illustrate how normative definitions of whiteness are being redefined. The conclusion uses these examples to discuss the need for explanations of racial stratification that can account for multiple nodes of inclusion and exclusion.

Compared with other nations such as Canada and Australia, the US experiment with welfare reform has yielded steeper and more immediate caseload declines. These declines have been especially pronounced for immigrants who have been subject to a new set of service restrictions implemented under the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. This article examines service access for Haitian immigrants in Miami, Florida since the onset of these reforms. The data presented here are derived from a series of qualitative interviews with Haitian service professionals and a quantitative survey of Haitian immigrant households. The survey data indicate that many Haitians who are living in poverty and qualified to access services are not enrolled for government services. Confusion over eligibility guidelines explains some of the variation of these low enrolments for specific services (such as child health insurance and childcare) but not for services most commonly used by immigrant adults such as food stamps and Medicaid. The survey also demonstrates that qualified immigrants living in households with unqualified persons are less likely to access services than are other qualified immigrants and are more likely to experience hardships that impede their ability to find stable employment. The concluding discussion highlights the significance of using a household unit of measure in assessing immigrant enrolments and hardships.

Open markets, militarized borders? Making sense of immigration enforcement today / Philip Kretsedemas AND David Brotherton -- Unchecked power against undesirables : Haitians, Mariel Cubans, and Guantanamo / Mark Dow -- Immigration, terrorism, and secret prisons / Dan Malone -- Democracy and immigration / Ira Kurzban -- Racializing, criminalizing, and silencing 9/11 deportees / Irum Sheikh -- Presumption of guilt : 9/11 and the American Muslim community / Arsalan Ifitikhar -- American and British constructions of asylum seekers : moral panic, detention, and human rights / Michael Welch and Liza Schuster -- Exiling New Yorkers / David Brotherton -- Invisible removal, endless detention, limited relief : a taste of immigration court representation for detained noncitizens / Abira Ashfaq -- Why black immigrants matter : refocusing the discussion on racism and immigration enforcement / Tamara K. Nopper -- Equal opportunity : an American immigrant nightmare / Malik Ndaula and Debbie Satyal -- From the ground up : families against deportation and delegalization / Subhash Kateel and Aarti ShahaniI -- Bordering the other in the U.S. Southwest : El Pasoans confront the local sheriff / Kathleen Staudt -- Framing the taxes and undocumented workers debate : a critical review of texts supporting pro-enforcement policies and practices / Jorge Capetillo-Ponce -- What does an undocumented immigrant look like? Local enforcement and the new immigrant profiling / Philip Kretsedemas -- Immigration policy at a crossroads / Philip Kretsedemas and David Brotherton