The New Deportations Delirium : : Interdisciplinary Responses / / ed. by Daniel Kanstroom, M. Brinton Lykes.

Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with “green cards,” have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel-a life-t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Citizenship and Migration in the Americas ; 7
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • FOREWORD: MAYAN MIGRANTS SPEAK OUT. From abUSed: The Postville Raid to Education and Advocacy: One Individual’s Journey
  • Introduction: Migration, Detention, and Deportation: Dilemmas and Responses
  • PART I. The Legal, Administrative, and Political Responses
  • 1. Unhappy Families: The Failings of Immigration Law for Families That Are Not All Alike
  • 2. Improving Conditions of Confinement for Immigrant Detainees: Guideposts Toward a Civil System of Civil Detention
  • 3. You Be the Judge: Who Should Preside Over Immigration Cases, Where, and How?
  • 4. Immigration Reform: Will New Political Calculations and New Actors Overcome Enforcement Inertia?
  • PART II. Interdisciplinary Research, Advocacy, and Actions for and with Migrants Affected by Detention and Deportation
  • 5. Legal and Social Work Responses to the Detained and Deported: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Actions
  • 6. Immigrants Facing Detention and Deportation: Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues, Assessment, and Intervention for Individuals and Families
  • 7. Participatory Action Research with Transnational and Mixed- Status Families: Understanding and Responding to Post– 9/11 Threats in Guatemala and the United States
  • 8. Unwelcome Returns: The Alienation of the New American Diaspora in Salvadoran Society
  • ABOUT THE EDITORS
  • ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX