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Banished to the homeland : Dominican deportees and their stories of exile / David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brotherton, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deportation.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Dominican Republic--Emigration and immigration.
- Dominican Republic.
- Deportation--Dominican Republic.
- Deportation--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has Led to the Forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios use a unique combination of sociological and criminological reasoning to isolate the forces that motivate emigrants to leave their homeland and commit crimes in the United States. Housed in urban landscapes rife with gangs, drugs, and tenuous working conditions, these individuals, the authors find, repeatedly play out a tragic scenario, influenced by long-standing historical injustices, punitive politics, and increasingly conservative attitudes undermining basic human rights and freedoms.
- Brotherton and Barrios conclude that a simultaneous process of cultural inclusion and socioeconomic exclusion best explains the trajectory of emigration, settlement, and rejection, and they mark in the behavior of deportees the contradictory effects of dependency and colonialism. Filled with riveting life stories and uncommon ethnographic research, this volume relates the modern deportee's journey to broader studies in transnationalism, assimilation, and social control. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The study
- Setting and sample
- Leaving for America
- Settlement
- Pathways to crime
- Prison
- Deported
- Back in the homeland
- part one : the social-psychological crisis of the deportee
- part two : economic, social and cultural survival
- part three : prison, Dominican style
- The return of the deportees
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231149341
- 0231149344
- 9780231149358
- 0231149352
- 9780231520324
- 0231520328
- OCLC:
- 730413625
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