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American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dow, Mark
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Immigrants > Government policy > United States.
Noncitizen detention centers > United States.
Human rights > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS
  • September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity
  • Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center
  • "Enforcement means you're brutal"
  • The world's first private prison
  • "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens
  • The art of jailing
  • "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents
  • Siege, shackles, climate, design
  • "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner
  • Good and evil in New England
  • Out West: philosophy and despair
  • Dead time
  • Mariel Cubans: abandoned, again and again.