Detain and Punish : Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System /

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This book provides the first in-depth history of immigration detention in the United States. Employing extensive archival research to document the origins and development of immigration detention in the U.S. from 1973 to 2000, it reveals how the world's largest detention system originated in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindskoog, Carl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Haitianer
Rechtsstellung
Abschiebungshaft
Flüchtling
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc.
Haitians > Legal status, laws, etc.
Emigration and immigration.
Detention of persons.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Detention of persons > United States.
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Haitians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
USA
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preparing the return of immigration detention, 1973-1980
  • The refugee crisis of 1980: forging the detention tool
  • Immigration detention reborn, 1981-1982
  • Constructing the detention regime, building resistance, 1981-1991
  • Guantanamo: new frontiers in detention, 1991-1994
  • Reinforcing the detention system, 1994-2000.

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