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legal violence: a standalone construct

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Migration studies

the normalized but harmful effects of immigration law on immigrants' lives, work, families and schooling.

In migration studies, legal violence refers to the normalized but harmful effects of immigration law on immigrants' lives, work, families and schooling. This meaning comes from Menjívar (2012) in American Journal of Sociology.[1]

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Menjívar, C., & Abrego, L. J. (2012). Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants. American Journal of Sociology, 117(5), 1380-1421. https://doi.org/10.1086/663575

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