American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons /

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Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dow, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Government policy > United States.
Human rights > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Emigration and immigration law
Human rights
Immigrants > Government policy
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
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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