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