The Slow Violence of Immigration Court : : Procedural Justice on Trial / / Maya Pagni Barak.

The arduous, confusing and fraught journey that immigrants take through immigration courtEach year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings take years and most migrants will eventually be ordered depo...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
1 Modern-Day Deportation --
2 Justice and Immigration Court --
3 Tracing Immigrant Legal Consciousness --
4 Who Says the Court Can’t Be Fair? --
5 Deportation Hearings, Legitimacy, and the Rule of Law --
6 The Case for Substantive Justice --
Conclusion: Reimagining Deportation --
Epilogue --
Acknowledgments --
Appendix: Interview Protocols --
Notes --
Index --
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Summary:The arduous, confusing and fraught journey that immigrants take through immigration courtEach year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings take years and most migrants will eventually be ordered deported. The Slow Violence of Immigration Court sheds light on the experiences of migrants from the “Northern Triangle” (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) as they navigate legal processes, deportation proceedings, immigration court, and the immigration system writ large.Grounded in the illuminating stories of people facing deportation, the family members who support them, and the attorneys who defend them, The Slow Violence of Immigration Court invites readers to question matters of fairness and justice and the fear of living with the threat of deportation. Although the spectacle of violence created by family separation and deportation is perceived as extreme and unprecedented, these long legal proceedings are masked in the mundane and are often overlooked, ignored, and excused. In an urgent call to action, Maya Pagni Barak deftly demonstrates that deportation and family separation are not abhorrent anomalies, but are a routine, slow form of violence at the heart of the U.S. immigration system.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781479821082
9783111319292
9783111318912
9783111319254
9783111318677
9783110751635
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479821082.001.0001
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Maya Pagni Barak.