Detain and deport : the chaotic U.S. immigration enforcement regime /

Hiemstra, Nancy,

Detain and deport : the chaotic U.S. immigration enforcement regime / Chaotic United States immigration enforcement regime Chaotic U.S. immigration enforcement regime Nancy Hiemstra. - Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : maps - Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 43 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

A transnational ethnography of U.S. detention and deportation -- Ecuadorian migration, U.S. policy, and human smuggling -- The making of a massive system -- Ordering chaos : system organization and operation -- The "peculiar" advantages of chaos : detainees' experiences -- "You don't know how I suffer, waiting every day" : reverberations of detention in Ecuador -- "There is no other way" : postdeportation insecurities and continued migration -- Ordering chaos, opening space -- Appendix A. Interviewed functionaries -- Appendix B. Interviewed deportees, basic data -- Appendix C. Deportee interview question guide.



9780820354644


Deportation--Government policy--United States.
Detention of persons--Government policy--United States.
Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.
Illegal immigration--Government policy--United States.
Noncitizens.


Electronic Books.

JV6483 / .D483 2019