Hunting Season Chapter Summary

Mirta Ojio’s book Hunting Season, Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town is based on a true story of an immigrant’s murder that turned a small American town on Long Island village of Patchogue into a war zone for immigration rights. In this critical reflection paper, I will discuss and analyze three key issues or themes that were represented in the Hunting Season and elaborate how these concepts connect with those of Governing Immigration through Crime by Dowling and Inda. The first concept is that of the Membership Theory, a theory which “limits individual rights and privileges to the members of a social contract between the government and the people” (Dowling & Inda,2013). The Membership theory often marks out boundaries of who is an accepted member of society and who isn’t, which was demonstrated in Hunting Season when Marcelo Lucero traveled from Ecuador to Long Island. …show more content…
One of the first concept that is shown throughout the book is that of the Membership Theory, a theory which “limits individual rights and privileges to the members of a social contract between the government and the people” (Dowling & Inda,2013). The Membership theory lays out boundaries that keep those who aren’t socially accepted by their society on the outside. With the expanding demographics of those immigrants and that of ex-offenders, this theory denies them access to that of membership in society such as the right to vote or that of the right to remain within the United States (Dowling & Inda,2013).
In Governing Immigration through Crime- Chapter 2 The Crimmigration Crisis, Immigrants, Crime and Sovereign Power – the authors state that the connection between that of immigration and criminal law is rooted from the membership in the United States society and it shows the difference between insiders and outsiders (Dowling & Inda,2013). Something that was quite obvious in the town of Patchogue