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Author Dow, Mark.

Title American gulag [electronic resource] : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.

Imprint Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 414 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Immigrants -- Government policy -- United States.
Alien detention centers -- United States.
Human rights -- United States.
Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Inside U.S. immigration prisons
ISBN 0520239423 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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