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The Deportation Machine : America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
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Title
The Deportation Machine : America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants / Adam Goodman.
ISBN
9780691201993
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (336 p.) : 40 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant 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. The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. This provocative, eye-opening book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time.In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman 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. He 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. Goodman uncovers the machine's three primary mechanisms-formal deportations, "voluntary" departures, and self-deportations-and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion.This revelatory book chronicles the devastating human costs of deportation and the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the machine and redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America ; 131
Contents
Frontmatter
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
Note on Sources and Language
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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