The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants / Adam Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Adam (Historian), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deportation--United States--History.

Deportation.

Emigration and immigration law--History.

Emigration and immigration law.

Immigrants--United States--History.

Immigrants.

History.

United States.

Citizenship--United States--History.

Citizenship.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 322 pages : illustrations, black and white photographs ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This revelatory book chronicles the devastating human costs of deportation and the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the machine and redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship."--Page [3] of cover.

Contents:

1 Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century p. 9

2 Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback p. 37

3 The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation p. 73

4 Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion p. 107

5 Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts p. 134

6 Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration p. 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic notes (pages 217-309) and index.

"The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives"--Page [2] of cover.

ISBN:

0691182159

9780691182155

OCLC:

1125975456

Publisher Number:

99984752991