Elizabeth Detention Center : A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Ulla D.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year.Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases.The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Abbreviations

Foreword / Nina Bernstein

Introduction / Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe

Part I. The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998

1. Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention Must Be Abolished / Amy Gottlieb

2. Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months / Elizabeth Llorente

3. The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States / Penny M. Venetis

4. Riot! / Fauziya Kassindja with Layli Miller Bashir

5. "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope" / Will Coley

Part II. Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security State

6. How a Good Immigrant / Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern Deportation Regime / Sarah Tosh

7. A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States / Abdulai Bah

8. "It's Not like You're Ever Going to See This Guy After He Gets Released Today . . ." / Marguerite É. Marty

9. We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power of Accompaniment / William Westerman

10. A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained at EDC / Bilal with Carolina Sánchez Boe

Part III. Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment

11. A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin / Rev. Seth Kaper­Dale

12. Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum / Edafe Okporo

13. Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic / Kristyn Scorsone

14. Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court / Pina N. Cirillo

15. Know Where You Stand and Stand There / Kathy O'Leary

Part IV. Economies of Detention.

16. Antidetention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a Private Detention-Only State / Katherine M. Sastre

17. Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the Elizabeth Detention Center / Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra

18. From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My Experience with Libre by Nexus / Julio Oseguera with Ulla D. Berg

19. Who Are the Criminals?: The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and Beyond / Kenneth Sebastian León

20. Do You Want to Come Back?: A Transgender Woman's Story Between Honduras and the EDC / Xiomara Flores with Ulla D. Berg

Part V. The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?

21. Toward Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey / Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub

22. "Daddy, This China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During COVID-19 / Ibrahim with Ulla D. Berg

23. The EDC Class Action and the Fight to End For-Profit Detention in New Jersey / Jessica Rofé

24. Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025 / Ivo and Gabriel with Gloria D'Alessio

25. The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and Sustaining National Momentum / Gabriela Viera

Afterword / Silky Shah

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Berg, Ulla D. Elizabeth Detention Center

ISBN:

9781978845855

OCLC:

1592101492