The Deportation Machine : : America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants / / Adam Goodman.

The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the lon...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 137
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 40 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Understanding the Machine
  • ONE. Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • TWO. Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback
  • THREE. The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation
  • FOUR. Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion
  • FIVE. Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts
  • SIX. Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration
  • Epilogue: Reckoning with the Machine
  • Note on Sources and Language
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index