Detention Empire : Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shull, Kristina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Noncitizen detention centers.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 20th century.
Noncitizen detention centers > United States > History.
United States.
United States > History > 1969-
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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's globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration, it laid the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781469669885

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