crimmigrant

English

Etymology

Blend of criminal +‎ immigrant

Noun

crimmigrant (plural crimmigrants)

1. (slang, chiefly derogatory) Someone who immigrates illegally.
   • 2012, Maria João Guia, “Crimmigration, securitisation and the criminal law of the crimmigrant”, in Social Control and Justice:

     This Criminal Law of the Crimmigrant may already be taking root in the crim-migration enforcement as criminal law becomes strongly imbued with strict irregular immigration control measures, and the reinforcement of securitisa-tion measures, which have recently been adopted to allow an increase in penal-ties for immigrant-related behaviour, serve as crime prevention mechanisms.

   • 2013, Leanne Weber, Policing Non-Citizens, page 187:

     Their apparent acceptance of this role, compared with an earlier reluctance to be involved in the enforcement of immigration law per se (Weber and Bowling 2004), may be due to the crimmigrant status of the targeted groups.

   • 2013, Matthew Wei, “Securing the Canadian Border:The Banopticon, Governmentality, and Biopolitics”, in Sojourners: Undergraduate Journal of Sociology (Queen’s University at Kingston):

     Opposite to crimmigrants, bona fide travellers experience the luxury of sped up process at border crossings, making travel a seamless experience (Aas, 2011).

   • 2018, Jessica Roher, Nicola Guarda, Maryam Khalid, Transnational Crime: Law, Theory and Practice at the Crossroads:

     We can see patterns between positive and negative mobility governance and in the treatment of the tourist and the crimmigrant, and in the facilitation of transnational mobility based on differentiated categories of labour and wealth.

Synonyms

• illegal immigrant, illegal (offensive)

Related terms

• crimmigration

See also

• deportable
• inadmissible