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The Resource Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

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A leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding. In Migrating to Prison, leading scholar Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernAndez takes a hard look at the immigration prison system's origins, how it currently operates, and why. He tackles the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s, with enforcement resources deployed disproportionately against Latinos, and he looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law. Interspersed with powerful stories of people caught up in the immigration imprisonment industry, including children who have spent most of their lives in immigrant detention, Migrating to Prison is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of the United States: who belongs and on what criteria is that determination made'
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (190 pages)
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Then. Laying the groundwork ; On the prison's edge ; The resurgence of immigration prisons
  • Now. The immigration prison archipelago ; The good immigrant vs. the bad immigrant ; The money
  • Toward a different tomorrow. Abolishing immigration prisons
  • Conclusion
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9781620974216
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Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants
Title
Migrating to prison
Title remainder
America's obsession with locking up immigrants
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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
A leading scholar's powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system For most of America's history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, almost 400,000 people annually now spend some time locked up pending the result of a civil or criminal immigration proceeding. In Migrating to Prison, leading scholar Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernAndez takes a hard look at the immigration prison system's origins, how it currently operates, and why. He tackles the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s, with enforcement resources deployed disproportionately against Latinos, and he looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law. Interspersed with powerful stories of people caught up in the immigration imprisonment industry, including children who have spent most of their lives in immigrant detention, Migrating to Prison is an urgent call for the abolition of immigration prisons and a radical reimagining of the United States: who belongs and on what criteria is that determination made'
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García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc,
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JV6483
LC item number
.G37 2019eb
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non fiction
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  • bibliography
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  • Detention of persons
  • Emigration and immigration law
  • United States
  • LAW
  • Alien detention centers
  • Detention of persons
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Emigration and immigration law
  • Illegal aliens
  • United States
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Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
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Contents
Introduction -- Then. Laying the groundwork ; On the prison's edge ; The resurgence of immigration prisons -- Now. The immigration prison archipelago ; The good immigrant vs. the bad immigrant ; The money -- Toward a different tomorrow. Abolishing immigration prisons -- Conclusion
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1 online resource (190 pages)
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9781620974216
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Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Then. Laying the groundwork ; On the prison's edge ; The resurgence of immigration prisons -- Now. The immigration prison archipelago ; The good immigrant vs. the bad immigrant ; The money -- Toward a different tomorrow. Abolishing immigration prisons -- Conclusion
Control code
1124599776
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (190 pages)
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unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781620974216
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unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
LIBRARY COPY INCLUDES 3-USER PERPETUAL ACCESS TO EBOOK
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
49b75517-082f-43b2-989c-50c14c3378bc
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not applicable
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unknown
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Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)1124599776

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