Boats, Borders, and Bases Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jenna M. Loyd is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alison Mountz is Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University."Although this book makes a much-needed contribution to critical geography, migration, race, criminology, and legal scholarship, it also nicely complements recent work-like <i>From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America</i>, which seek to identify the rise of migrant detention throughout the US. This book takes that task one step further by theorizing spaces and processes of deterrence and detention beyond the interior of the US while making an even broader contribution to research on multijurisdictional patchworks."
International Criminal Justice Review
"Long-neglected by scholars of mass incarceration and migration alike, the U.S. immigration detention system is attracting increasing concern and media attention in the Trump era. Much of this coverage, however, lacks historical context. A majority of scholarship on migrant detention focuses on the explosive growth of the system since 9/11 and on the US-Mexico border as a primary enforcement site. <i>Boats, Borders, and Bases</i> contributes to an emerging body of scholarship that fills gaps in these narratives by illuminating the deeper and less visible Cold War and Caribbean roots of the contemporary detention system."
Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books
"A book with an urgent ethical and legal purpose."
Religious Studies Review
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE. RACE AND THE COLD WAR GEOPOLITICS
OF MIGRATION CONTROL
1. “America’s ‘Boat People’”
Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge
2. Militarizing Migration
The Politics of Asylum and Deterrence
PART TWO. BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM
3. “Not a Prison”
Building a Deportation Hub in Oakdale, Louisiana
4. “Uncle Sam Has a Long Arm”
War and the Making of Deterrent Landscapes
PART THREE. EXPANDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST
DETENTION SYSTEM
5. Safe Haven
The Creation of an Off shore Detention Archipelago
6. Onshore Expansion
Consolidating Deterrence through Criminalization
and Expulsion
7. Post-9/11 Policing
Back to the Future
Coda
Notes
References
Index
—Joseph Nevins, Professor of Geography, Vassar College
“We have been waiting for this book. Loyd and Mountz bring together multiple histories crucial to understanding U.S. practices of migrant detention and imprisonment. This book should be required reading for anyone invested in challenging the criminalization of migrants and the escalating violence of U.S. policing and imprisonment regimes.”
—A. Naomi Paik, author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II