Detention Empire : Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance / Kristina Shull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shull, Kristina, author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, Power, and Politics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Noncitizen detention centers--United States--History.

Noncitizen detention centers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration, it laid the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1. Constructing the Carceral Palimpsest

2. Nobody Wants These People: Mariel Cubans and the Specter of Mass Migration

3. We Have Been Unable to Find Any Precedent: Haitian Interdiction and Detention

4. This Time, They'll Be Feet People: Central American Wars and Seeds of Resistance

5. Give Us Liberty, or We Will Tear the Place Apart! Detention as Counterinsurgency

6. Somos los Abandonados: Prison Uprisings and the Architectures of Erasure

Postscript: Writing about the Abuses against Us: Detention Stories and Abolitionist Imaginaries

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Shull, Kristina Detention Empire

ISBN:

979-88-908610-3-0

979-88-908610-4-7

1-4696-6988-9

OCLC:

1343249171