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

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Operation Streamline
	Criminal Immigration Prosecutions
		The Roots of Operation Streamline
		Arizona Denial Prosecution Initiative, Tucson, AZ
	Operation Streamline as a Case of Competing Identity Management
		Work-Related Role Identities
		Social Identities
	Summary
2. Competing Identity Management
	Structural Symbolic Interactionism: Role Identity and Processes
	Social Identity
	Identity Work
	Cultural Theories of Racial/Ethnic and National/ Citizenship Identity
	Impression Management
	Developing Competing Identity Management
3. “You Might Think It’s Unjust, But It’s Perfectly Legal”: Work-Related Role Strain for Legal Professionals
	The “Substantive Justice” Pole of Work-Related Role Strain
	The “Formal Justice” Pole of Work-Related Role Strain
	Increased Work-Related Role Strain for Latino/a Legal Professionals
		Identity Consolidation among Non-Latino/a Respondents
		Identity Consolidation among Latino/a Respondents
		Going through the Motions versus Role Making
		Latino/a Legal Professional’s Use of Psychological Compartmentalization
		Fictive Story Telling
	Summary
4. “Honestly, I am Just Like Them”: The Impact of Racial/ Ethnic Social Identity
	In-Group Similarities among Latino/a Respondents
	Out-Group Differences among Non-Latino/a Respondents
		Gringos
		Describing Social-Structural Identity Distance
		Failing to Recognize Racial/Ethnic Social Identity
	Summary
5. “If There Was an Influx of White Canadian People Coming Across the Border, They Would Treat Them Better”: Negotiating Identifications
	Time with Clients
	Changes to Operation Streamline Over Time
	Place: Oh, Canada
	Beliefs/Ideas/Values through Common Metaphors
	Summary
6. “I’m an American. The Problem is This: You Think I’m a Mexican”: Citizenship/Generational Status
	Citizenship/Generational Status’s Effect on Racial/Ethnic Social Identity
	Thick and Asserted Identities among 1.5- and 2nd-Generation Migrants
		Pochos and DREAMers
	Thin and Assigned Identities among Naturalized Migrants and the Third-Generation-Plus
	Differences in Identity Management Strategies by Citizenship/Generational Status
	Summary
7. “I’ll Try to Get You a Boy Lawyer”: Gender Differences
	The Influence of Gender
	Benevolent Sexism from Men Attorneys and Judges
	Emotional Boundaries for Women Legal Professionals
	Latina Respondents and Authority
	Latina Activist Backgrounds and Altruistic Motivations
	Summary
8. “There is No Difference Between You and Me”: Situationality of Social and Role Identities for 1.5- and 2nd-Generation Latino/As
	Situations Matter: Balancing Competing Work-Related Role Identity and Social Identities
	Client-Oriented Situations: Playing Up Racial/Ethnic Social Identity and Downplaying Citizenship/Generational Status by Acknowledging a Lack of Substantive Justice
		Spanish-Language Proficiency and Racial/Ethnic Social Identity
	Activist-Oriented Situations: Downplaying Racial/Ethnic Social Identity and Playing Up Citizenship/Generational Status by Focusing on Formal Justice
	Summary
Conclusion
Appendix A: Research Design, Data Collection, and Method of Analysis
Appendix B: Interview Guide
Index