ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how legal professionals involved in Operation Streamline use negotiated identifications—or references to time, place, people, or beliefs/ideas/values—as a way of emphasizing their own identities. This identity management strategy varies based on racial/ethnic social identity, linking macro level racialization in immigration and criminal justice systems to micro level identity management of legal professionals. This chapter highlights three aspects of how the racial/ethnic social identity of Latino/as versus non-Latino/as affects temporal identifications in two different areas (time with clients, and changes to Operation Streamline over time); spatial identifications (México versus Canada); and beliefs/ideas/values identifications in discourse via metaphors and references.
