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Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > Immigration law
"I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations
between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their
children, most of whom seemed to be between three and eight years
old, played with a few toys on the floor. It was hard for me to get
my head around the idea of a jail full of toddlers, but there they
were." For decades, advocates for refugee children and families
have fought to end the U.S. government's practice of jailing
children and families for months, or even years, until overburdened
immigration courts could rule on their claims for asylum. Baby
Jails is the history of that legal and political struggle. Philip
G. Schrag, the director of Georgetown University's asylum law
clinic, takes readers through thirty years of conflict over which
refugee advocates resisted the detention of migrant children. The
saga began during the Reagan administration when 15-year-old Jenny
Lisette Flores languished in a Los Angeles motel that the
government had turned into a makeshift jail by draining the
swimming pool, barring the windows, and surrounding the building
with barbed wire. What became known as the Flores Settlement
Agreement was still at issue years later, when the Trump
administration resorted to the forced separation of families after
the courts would not allow long-term jailing of the children.
Schrag provides recommendations for the reform of a system that has
brought anguish and trauma to thousands of parents and children.
Provocative and timely, Baby Jails exposes the ongoing struggle
between the U.S. government and immigrant advocates over the
duration and conditions of confinement of children who seek safety
in America.
Global politics has transformed in recent years due to a rise in
nationalist ideology, the breakdown of multiple societies, and even
nation-state legitimacy. The nation-state, arguably, has been in
question for much of the digital age, as citizens become
transnational and claim loyalty to many different groups, causes,
and in some cases, states. Thus, politics that accompany diasporic
communities have become increasingly important focal points of
comparative and political science research. Global Diaspora
Politics and Social Movements: Emerging Research and Opportunities
provides innovative insights into the dispersion of political and
social groups across the world through various research methods
such as case studies. This publication examines migration politics,
security policy, and social movements. It is designed for
academicians, policymakers, government officials, researchers, and
students, and covers topics centered on the distribution of social
groups and political groups.
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