Space of detention : the making of a transnational gang crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador / Elana Zilberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zilberg, Elana, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangs--California--Los Angeles.

Gangs.

Gangs--El Salvador--San Salvador.

Salvadorans--California--Los Angeles.

Salvadorans.

Gangs--Government policy--United States.

Gang prevention--United States.

Gang prevention.

Gangs--Government policy.

United States.

California--Los Angeles.

El Salvador--San Salvador.

Physical Description:

344 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Space of Detention is a powerful ethnographic account and spatial analysis of the transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador. Elana Zilberg seeks to understand how this phenomenon became an issue of central concern for national and regional security, and how La Mara Salvatrucha, a gang founded by Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles, came to symbolize the "gang crime-terrorism continuum." She follows Salvadoran immigrants raised in Los Angeles, who identify as-or are alleged to be-gang members and who are deported back to EI Salvador after their incarceration in the United States. Analyzing z:ero-tolerance gang-abatement strategies in both countries, Zilberg shows that these measures help to produce the very transnational violence and undocumented migration that they are intended to suppress. She argues that the contemporary fixation with Latino immigrant and Salvadoran street gangs, while in part a product of media hype, must also be understood in relation to the longer history of U.S. involvement in Central America, the processes of neoliberalism and globalization, and the intersection of immigration, criminal, and antiterroristlaw. These forces combine to produce what Zilberg terms "neoliberal securityscapes." Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: neoliberal securityscapes

Chronology: the divided ends of peace

Latino looter: law of place

Street hoodlum: topographic reform

Criminal cop: spatial justice

Criminal deportee: transnational space

Gang peace activist: the space of civil society

Soldier cop: remitarized space

The gang-crime-terrorism continuum

Conclusion: hall of mirrors

Epilogue: impressions from a political present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822347132

082234713X

9780822347309

082234730X

OCLC:

714725931