crimmigration

crimmigration

English

Etymology

Blend of criminal +‎ immigration. Coined by Juliet Stumpf in 2006.[1]

Noun

crimmigration (plural crimmigrations)

1. Unlawful/illegal immigration.
   • 2006, The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime and Sovereign Power, American University Law Review, volume 56, issue 2, article 3:

     This use of membership theory places the law on the edge of a crimmigration crisis. Only the harshest elements of each area of law make their way into the criminalization of immigration law, and the apparatus of the state is used to expel from society those deemed criminally alien.

   • 2012, Commentary: Gendering Crimmigration: The Intersection of Gender, Immigration, and the Criminal Justice System, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, volume 27, issue 1, article 1:

     In the last decade, legal scholars have noted with alarm the increasing alignment between immigration enforcement and the goals and methods of the criminal justice system, terming this alignment "crimmigration." Although discussions of race and nativism have played a large part in this analysis, the same cannot be said for the connection between crimmigration and gender.

   • 2013, The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion - Chapter 4 - The Process is the Punishment in Crimmigration Law:

     The first part considers how the rise of crimmigration law complicates the question of whether deportation constitutes criminal punishment in US law.

Synonyms

• illegal immigration

Related terms

• crimmigrant

References

1. 2016 Immigration, Crime, and Crimmigration: The Ongoing Management of Irregular Migration: During my PhD, I came to the concept of crimmigration, coined by Juliet Stumpf in her article from 2006.