Elliott Young (Professor of History, Professor of History, Lewis an

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Forever Prisoners

How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System

Beschreibung

The first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States, Forever Prisoners narrates the stories of immigrants locked up by the US government from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how criminality has become conflated with undocumented migrants.

Autor

Elliott Young is Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. He is the author of Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through WWII and Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border and co-editor of Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History. He is co-founder of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas. He has also provided expert witness testimony for over 200 asylum cases and has written for the Huffington Post, the Oregonian, and the Utne Reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780190085957
• ISBN-10: 0190085959
• Artikelnr.: 59079587