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American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons /

Main Author: Dow, Mark.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Government policy > United States.
Alien detention centers > United States.
Human rights > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Government policy. > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Alien detention centers.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration law.
Human rights.
Immigrants > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration
United States.
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Table of 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
  • Mariel Cubans: abandoned, again and again.

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