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The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants /
Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Politics and society in modern America.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Understanding the Machine
- One. Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Two. Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback
- Three. The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation
- Four. Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion
- Five. Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts
- Six. Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration
- Epilogue: Reckoning with the Machine.