Start with the search terms "immigration law" in the following databases. Gale Virtual Reference Library is a good place to start for general overviews of this topic.
Immigration policy in the United States an update (government document)
Immigration Reform by
Despite the United States' history as a melting pot, debate has increased of late regarding people crossing the borders illegally into the country. This volume explores all sides of this issue, including whether or not amnesty and a path to citizenship are viable aspects of immigration reform, and who should decide these issues.
The Human and Economic Implications of 21st Century Immigration Policy by
"This volume collects the lectures of distinguished immigration scholars delivered at Western Michigan University (WMU) during the 2016-2017 academic year, with cosponsorship from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research"--
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation, and Border Control by
The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump's administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new. In this book, sociologists David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas bring together an interdisciplinary group of contributors to reconsider the immigration policies of the Obama era and beyond in terms of a decades-long "age of punishment." Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at current issues surrounding immigration in the U.S. and abroad. It examines key features of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration enforcement. Contributors document the continuities between presidential administrations and across countries from many perspectives, with chapters discussing Canada, Australia, France, the UK, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico in addition to the U.S. They offer macro- level analyses of deportations and border enforcement, analyses of national policy and jurisprudence, and ethnographic accounts of the daily life experience of the prison-to-deportation pipeline, the making of deportability, and post-deportation transitions for noncitizens. This book highlights new directions in critical immigration policy and enforcement and deportation studies with the aim of problematizing the age of punishment that currently reigns over borders and those who seek to cross them.