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The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants / Adam Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Adam, author.
- Series:
- Politics and society in modern America.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deportation--United States.
- Deportation.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Immigrants--United States.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 322 pages) : illustrations, charts.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. This text traces the long and troubling history of the U.S. government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. The book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time. It examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. It reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Understanding the machine
- One. Creating the mechanisms of expulsion at the turn of the twentieth century
- Two. Coerced removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback
- Three. The human costs of the business of deportation
- Four. Manufacturing crisis and fomenting fear at the dawn of the age of mass expulsion
- Five. Fighting the machine in the streets and in the courts
- Six. Deportation in an era of militarized borders and mass incarceration
- Epilogue: Reckoning with the machine
- Notes on sources and language
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9780691201993
- 0691201994
- OCLC:
- 1238027185
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