The Plantation Society, circa 2008: Discussing Immigration through the Lens of Criminology

Abstract

The article discusses the issue of immigration based on the perspective from a Criminology class. It relates the author's experience as one of the radical teachers who try to present the complex social issues in the classroom at a historical occasion. It also discussed how the criminal justice system acted as an anchor on which slavery was modernized as a contemporary legal institution, in which one has to pay closer attention to the social relations of slavery. Moreover, the article states the author's view of immigration within criminology enables him to see existence of racial discrimination as a form of insoluble antagonism.