Faculty & Staff
Philip Kretsedemas, PhD
- Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6273
- Fax: 617-287-6288
- Email: philip.kretsedemas@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,04,00008
Areas of Expertise
Immigration, Critical Race Theory, Globalization and Social Change, Social Welfare Policy, Poststructuralist Theory, Pragmatist Theory
Degrees
PhD, University of Minnesota
Professional Publications & Contributions
Jorge Capetillo, Glenn Jacobs and Philip Kretsedemas, eds. (Forthcoming). Migrant Marginality: A Transnational Perspective. New York: Routledge.
Philip Kretsedemas. (Forthcoming). Migrants and Race in the US: Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside. New York: Routledge.
Philip Kretsedemas. 2012. “The Limits of Control: Neoliberal Priorities and the US Nonimmigrant Flow.” International Migration 50: s1 (2012) e1-18.
Philip Kretsedemas. 2012. The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation and the Limits of the Law. Columbia University Press.
Philip Kretsedemas. 2010. “But She's Not Black! Viewer Interpretations of Angry Black Women on Prime Time TV” Journal of African American Studies, Volume 14. Number 2. Pages 149-170.
Philip Kretsedemas. 2008. “Redefining ‘Race’ in North America.” Current Sociology, (November) Volume 56 No 6. Pages 827-845.
Philip Kretsedemas. 2008. “Immigration Enforcement and the Complication of National Sovereignty: Understanding Local Enforcement as an Exercise in Neoliberal Governance.” American Quarterly. (September) Volume 60. No 3. Pages 553-573.
David Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas (Eds). 2008. Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Additional Information
View Professor Kretsedemas's Curriculum Vitae
Current Research
My research and writing has examined the dynamics of immigrant racialization, policy outcomes for immigrant populations and the regulation of migrant flows by the state. My earliest work on these topics examined the impact of welfare reform for immigrant populations in the US. In recent years, my work on state policy, race and immigration has become more focused on immigration enforcement. All of this work has been informed by a broad concern for examining how social and legal constructions of immigration, nativity and illegality are being used to define the inner and outer spaces of contemporary society. My most recent writing is devoted to theorizing how immigration policy and practices have been used to construct these sorts of spaces (as in the recent book, The Immigration Crucible).
