Protect, serve, and deport: the rise of policing as immigration enforcement

"Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who...

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1. Verfasser: Armenta, Amada 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:"Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals, but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver removable immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging."...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 197 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9780520968868
DOI:10.1515/9780520968868