Immigration Nation Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America

Name: Immigration Nation Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America
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ISBN: 9781594518386

ISBN-10: 1594518386

ISBN-13: 9781594518386

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

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Immigration Nationprovides a critical analysis of the impact that U.S. immigration policy has on human rights. In the wake of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security was founded to protect America from the threat of terrorist attacks. However, along with dramatic increases in immigration law enforcement — raids, detentions, and deportations have increased six-fold in the past decade — American citizens, families, and communities have ultimately borne the cost. Although family reunification is officially a core component of U.S. immigration policy, these same policies often tear families apart. Pundits and politicians nearly always frame this debate in terms of security and economic needs,…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Tanya Golash-Boza is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies at the University of Kansas. She has published articles on blackness in Peru, Latino/a identity in the U.S., and the human rights impact of U.S. immigration policies. Her most recent work is a cross-national study of deportees in the Caribbean.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: How Punitive Immigration Policies Negatively Affect Citizens, Families, and Communities



Roots of Immigration to the United States



The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration Enforcement Regime of the Twenty-First Century



Racism and the Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy



The Impossible Choice: Family versus Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Policies



The Immigration Industrial Complex: Who Profits from Immigration Policies Destined to Fail?


Conclusion: Immigration Policy and Human Rights


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author