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Detention empire : Reagan's war on immigrants and the seeds of resistance /

"The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration&...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shull, Kristina (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Collection:Justice, power, and politics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Constructing the Carceral Palimpsest
  • 2. Nobody Wants These People: Mariel Cubans and the Specter of Mass Migration
  • 3. We Have Been Unable to Find Any Precedent: Haitian Interdiction and Detention
  • 4. This Time, They'll Be Feet People: Central American Wars and Seeds of Resistance
  • 5. Give Us Liberty, or We Will Tear the Place Apart! Detention as Counterinsurgency
  • 6. Somos los Abandonados: Prison Uprisings and the Architectures of Erasure
  • Postscript: Writing about the Abuses against Us: Detention Stories and Abolitionist Imaginaries.