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Deported : Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism /

"The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997--twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is a disturbing pattern in the population deported: 97% of deportees are sent to Latin America or the Caribbean, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mass deportation and the neoliberal cycle
  • Growing up : yearning for a new life
  • Crossing over : risking life and facing increased border security
  • Interlude : Samuel
  • Becoming (Black and Latino) American : the impact of policing
  • Interlude : Juan Pablo
  • The war on drugs : getting ensnared by the criminal justice system
  • Interlude : Katy
  • Getting caught : targets of deportation policy
  • Behind bars : immigration detention and prison life
  • Back home : disposable labor and the impacts of deportation
  • Conclusion: Global apartheid.