| Description |
xiii, 413 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : "Let this be home" -- Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11 : secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation : Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West : philosophy and despair -- Dead time -- Mariel Cubans : abandoned, again and again. |
| Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Immigrants -- Government policy -- United States.
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Alien detention centers -- United States.
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Human rights -- United States.
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0520239423 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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