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U.S. immigration reform and its global impact : lessons from the Postville raid / Erik Camayd-Freixas.

Van Pelt Library KF4829 .C36 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Camayd-Freixas, Erik.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
Foreign workers.
Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc.
Foreign workers, Guatemalan.
Foreign workers, Mexican.
United States.
Deportation--United States.
Deportation.
Noncitizens--Iowa--Postville.
Noncitizens.
Illegal immigration--Iowa--Postville.
Illegal immigration.
Iowa--Postville.
Immigration enforcement--United States.
Immigration enforcement.
Postville Immigration Raid, Postville, Iowa, 2008.
Foreign workers, Mexican--Iowa--Postville.
Foreign workers, Guatemalan--Iowa--Postville.
Physical Description:
261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Contents:
Introduction : think globally, act locally
Hometown to the world : a brief history of Postville
ICE over the heartland : the May raid and its costs
Theatrum juridicum : inside the judicial process
The script and the scandal : national legal reactions
The orphans of globalization : a portrait of the migrant workers
The kosher jungle : chronicle of Agriprocessors (1987-2009)
Endgame : the prelude and the aftermath
The day democracy died : the decline of the U.S. Constitution
Conclusion : enlightened immigration reform : toward a free-trade labor policy.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-254) and index.
ISBN:
9780230105850
0230105858
OCLC:
841556652

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