Migrating to prison : America's obsession with locking up immigrants
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Published
New York : The New Press, 2019.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 23 cm.
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Ridgway Public Library - NONFICTION
325.73 GAR
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Published
New York : The New Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Street Date
1912
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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 César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández 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?,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
García Hernández, C. C. (2019). Migrating to prison: America's obsession with locking up immigrants . The New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc. 2019. Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants. The New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc. Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants The New Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)García Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc. Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession With Locking Up Immigrants The New Press, 2019.
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