American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons
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1. Verfasser: Dow, Mark (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2004
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-381) and index
Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time -- Mariel Cubans: abandoned, again and again
Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 413 p.)
ISBN:0520901789
0520939271
1417510617
1597344613
9780520901780
9780520939271
9781417510610
9781597344616

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