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Forever Prisoners - How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System (Hardcover)
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Forever Prisoners - How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System (Hardcover)
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Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration
bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the
headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost
completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution,
and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and
worked in this country for years, has left them vulnerable to the
most extreme forms of state power. Although the rhetoric
surrounding these individuals is extreme, the US government has
been locking up immigrants since the late nineteenth century, often
for indefinite periods and with limited ability to challenge their
confinement. Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of
immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on
five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of
Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew
caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America
during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a
Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban
refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United
States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation.
Young shows how foreigners have been caged not just for immigration
violations, but also held in state and federal prisons for criminal
offenses, in insane asylums for mental illness, as enemy aliens in
INS facilities, and in refugee camps. Since the 1980s, the
conflation of criminality with undocumented migrants has given rise
to the most extensive system of immigrant incarceration in the
nation's history. Today over half a million immigrants are caged
each year, some serving indefinite terms in what has become the
world's most extensive immigrant detention system. And yet, Young
finds, the rate of all forms of incarceration for immigrants was as
high in the early twentieth century as it is today, demonstrating a
return to past carceral practices. Providing critical historical
context for today's news cycle, Forever Prisoners focuses on the
sites of limbo where America's immigration population have been and
continue to be held.
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