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The deportation machine America's long history of expelling immigrants Adam Goodman

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Author:
Goodman, Adam  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Type:
Electronic resources
Electronic books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2020
Notes:
Elecresource
Contents:
Cover -- 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
Summary:
"By most accounts, the United States has deported around five million people since 1882-but this includes only what the federal government calls "formal deportations." "Voluntary departures," where undocumented immigrants who have been detained agree to leave within a specified time period, and "self-deportations," where undocumented immigrants leave because legal structures in the United States have made their lives too difficult and frightening, together constitute 90% of the undocumented immigrants who have been expelled by the federal government. This brings the number of deportees to fifty-six million. These forms of deportation rely on threats and coercion created at the federal, state, and local levels, using large-scale publicity campaigns, the fear of immigration raids, and detentions to cost-effectively push people out of the country. Here, Adam Goodman traces a comprehensive history of American deportation policies from 1882 to the present and near future. He shows that some of the country's largest deportation operations expelled hundreds of thousands of people almost exclusively through the use of voluntary departures and through carefully-planned fear campaigns that terrified undocumented immigrants through newspaper, radio, and television publicity. These deportation efforts have disproportionately targeted Mexican immigrants, who make up half of non-citizens but 90% of deportees. Goodman examines the political economy of these deportation operations, arguing that they run on private transportation companies, corrupt public-private relations, and the creation of fear-based internal borders for long-term undocumented residents. He grounds his conclusions in over four years of research in English- and Spanish-language archives and twenty-five oral histories conducted with both immigration officials and immigrants-revealing for the first time the true magnitude and deep historical roots of anti-immigrant policy in the United States"-- Provided by publisher
Topic:
Deportation--History  Search this
HISTORY / United States / General  Search this
Deportation  Search this
Emigration and immigration--Government policy  Search this
Emigration and immigration  Search this
Government policy  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
JV6483 .G66 2020 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
Unlimited users
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145402