Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity: Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management...

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Jessie K. Finch (Jessie K. Finch is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Northern Arizona University.)

Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity

Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management

Jessie K. Finch (Jessie K. Finch is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Northern Arizona University.)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Regional studies; Hispanic & Latino studies; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Social, group or collective psychology; Criminology: legal aspects

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges.

How do individuals negotiate situations in which their work-role identity is put in competition with their other social identities such as race/ethnicity, citizenship/generational status, and gender? By developing a new and integrative conceptualization of competing identity management, this book highlights the connection between micro level identities and macro level systems of structural racism, nationalism, and patriarchy. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, readers gain insight into the identity management strategies used by both Latino/a and non-Latino/a legal professionals of various citizenship/generational statuses and genders as they explain their participation in a program that represents many of the systemic inequalities that exist in the current U.S. criminal justice and immigration regimes.

The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social psychology, critical criminology, racial/ethnic studies, and migration studies. Additionally, with clear descriptions of terminology and theories referenced, students can learn not only about Operation Streamline as a specific criminal immigration proceeding that exemplifies structural inequalities but also about how those inequalities are reproduced—often reluctantly—by the legal professionals involved.

By: Jessie K. Finch (Jessie K. Finch is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Northern Arizona University.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032223940
ISBN 10: 1032223944
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jessie K. Finch is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at Northern Arizona University and an Associate Teaching Professor. She studies migration, race and ethnicity, deviance, social psychology, emotions, culture, health, and pedagogy. She has a Ph.D. (2015) and M.A. (2011) in Sociology from the University of Arizona and a B.A. (2007) in Sociology and Music from the University of Tulsa. Jessie has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Teaching Sociology, Race and Social Problems, and Sociological Spectrum and has received grants from the National Science Foundation as well as the American Sociological Association. She is the co-editor of Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert (2016). She has also taught courses on immigration, race and ethnicity, deviance, research methods, popular culture, and happiness.