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The Deportation Express - A History of America through Forced Removal (Hardcover)
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The Deportation Express - A History of America through Forced Removal (Hardcover)
Series: American Crossroads, 61
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A history of the United States' systematic expulsion of
"undesirables" and immigrants, told through the lives of the
passengers who travelled from around the world, only to be locked
up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains. The
United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of
the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment
and deportation that the world has ever known. The Deportation
Express is the first history of American deportation trains: a
network of prison railroad cars repurposed by the Immigration
Bureau to link jails, hospitals, asylums, and workhouses across the
country and allow forced removal with terrifying efficiency. With
this book, historian Ethan Blue uncovers the origins of the
deportation train and finds the roots of the current moment, as
immigrant restriction and mass deportation once again play critical
and troubling roles in contemporary politics and legislation. A
century ago, deportation trains made constant circuits around the
nation, gathering so-called "undesirable aliens"-migrants disdained
for their poverty, political radicalism, criminal conviction, or
mental illness-and conveyed them to ports for exile overseas.
Previous deportation procedures had been violent, expensive, and
relatively ad hoc, but the railroad industrialized the expulsion of
the undesirable. Trains provided a powerful technology to divide
"citizens" from "aliens" and displace people in unprecedented
numbers. Drawing on the lives of migrants and the agents who
expelled them, The Deportation Express is history told from aboard
a deportation train. By following the lives of selected individuals
caught within the deportation regime, this book dramatically
reveals how the forces of state exclusion accompanied epic
immigration in early twentieth-century America. These are the
stories of people who traveled from around the globe, only to be
locked up and cast out, deported through systems that bound the
United States together, and in turn, pulled the world apart. Their
journey would be followed by millions more in the years to come.
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