Banished to the homeland : Dominican deportees and their stories of exile / David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brotherton, David.

Contributor:

Barrios, Luis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deportation--Dominican Republic.

Deportation.

Deportation--United States.

Dominican Republic--Emigration and immigration.

Dominican Republic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

Summary:

The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Since these deportees return to the country of their origin, many Americans assume repatriation will be easy and the emotional and financial hardships will be few, but in fact the opposite is true. Deportees suffer greatly when they are torn from their American families and social networks, and they are further demeaned as they resettle former homelands, blamed for crime waves, cultural an

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Study; How It All Began; The Literature; The Deportee as Substance; The Deportee as Theory; Toward a Transnational Methodology; Contents of the Book; 2. Setting and Sample; History; The Contemporary Sociogeography of the Dominican Republic; The Political Economy of the Dominican Republic; What Happened to the Caribbean Miracle?; From Indirect to Direct Violence; The Sample; 3. Leaving for America; Reasons for Leaving; From the Indirect Violence of Poverty to the Direct Violence of Repression; Feelings of Loss

Getting to AmericaConclusion; 4. Settlement; The Neighborhood; Family Life; School Life; Getting a Job; Conclusion; 5. Pathways to Crime; Pathways to Crime; The Peer Group; What of Rational Choice? The Egocentric Economic Decision; What of the Family Context?; Of Ethics and Socialization: Snitches and Corrupt Officials; Conclusion; 6. Prison; Legal Representation; The Shock of the Sentence; Prison Experiences; Conclusion; 7. Deported; Experiencing the Legal Process of Deportation; The Flight Back; Conclusion; 8. Back in the Homeland-Part One: The Social-Psychological Crisis of the Deportee

Getting ProcessedThe Experience of Social Displacement and Stigmatization; Moral and Physical Stigma; Conclusion; 9. Back in the Homeland-Part Two: Economic, Social and Cultural Survival; Work; The Formal Sector; The Informal Sector; Conclusion; 10. Back in the Homeland-Part Three: Prison, Dominican Style; The Dominican Prison System; The Situation at Najayo Prison; Conclusion; 11. The Return of the Deportees; Why Go Back to the United States?; How Do Deportees Return?; Surviving in New York City; Themes from the Interviews; Conclusion; 12. Conclusion; Between Hope and Rejection

Bulimia and a Contradictory Theory of ExclusionThe Homecoming; What of Resistance?; New Practices and Policies of Inclusion?; More Research; Appendix A: Dominican Central Bank Occupational Data; Appendix B: Internet Resources; Appendix C: Immigrant Rights; Appendix D: Pro-Immigrant Organizations Fighting Deportation; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613787071

9781281606372

1281606375

9780231520324

0231520328

OCLC:

818856463