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Detention Empire - Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance (Paperback)
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Detention Empire - Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance (Paperback)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
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The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of
modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban
migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and
Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert
warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs.
Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how
migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the
intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As
the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement
measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration, it laid
the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion.
Reagan's war on immigrants also sowed seeds of mass resistance.
Drawing on critical refugee studies, community archives, protest
artifacts, and oral histories, Detention Empire also shows how
migrants resisted state repression at every turn. People in
detention and allies on the outside-including legal advocates,
Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, and the Central American peace
and Sanctuary movements-organized hunger strikes, caravans, and
prison uprisings to counter the silencing effects of incarceration
and speak truth to U.S. empire. As the United States remains
committed to shoring up its borders in an era of unprecedented
migration and climate crisis, reckoning with these histories take
on new urgency.
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