Unpacking the Politics of the US Deportation System

Tina Law

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.03

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 4 49-75

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.03

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online December 4, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Law, Tina. 2025. “Unpacking the Politics of the US Deportation System.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(4): 49–75. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.03. Thank you to Em Bello-Pardo for his engagement with this research project, including help with data collection and analysis. Thanks also to the issue editors, fellow contributors, and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts. This research was supported in part by a collaborative research seed grant from the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, Russell Sage Foundation (regranted from grant number G-6821, ROR: https://ror.org/02yh9se80), and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Direct correspondence to: Tina Law, at law{at}ucdavis.edu, University of California, Davis, Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Sociology, One Shields Drive, Room 1298, Davis, CA 95616, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.