Boats, Borders, and Bases (eBook)

Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States

Jenna M. Loyd, Alison Mountz (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
320 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96296-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Discussions about U.S. migration policing have traditionally focused on enforcement along the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary. Enforcement practices such as detention policies designed to restrict access to asylum also transpire in the Caribbean. Boats, Borders, and Bases tells a missing, racialized history of the U.S. migration detention system that was developed and expanded to deter Haitian and Cuban migrants. Jenna M. Loyd and Alison Mountz argue that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations established the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration detention and border-deterrent practices in the United States. This book will make a significant contribution to a fuller understanding of the history and geography of the United States's migration detention system.

Inhalt

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE. RACE AND THE COLD WAR GEOPOLITICS
OF MIGRATION CONTROL

1. “America’s ‘Boat People’”
Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge
2. Militarizing Migration
The Politics of Asylum and Deterrence

PART TWO. BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM

3. “Not a Prison”
Building a Deportation Hub in Oakdale, Louisiana
4. “Uncle Sam Has a Long Arm”
War and the Making of Deterrent Landscapes


PART THREE. EXPANDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST
DETENTION SYSTEM

5. Safe Haven
The Creation of an Off shore Detention Archipelago
6. Onshore Expansion
Consolidating Deterrence through Criminalization
and Expulsion
7. Post-9/11 Policing
Back to the Future

Coda

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: alien detention centers • boat people in america • Border Patrol • caribbean migrations • contemporary migration • contemporary migration restrictions • Cuban migrants • ice detention • Illegal aliens • Illegal Immigrants • immigration and customs enforcement • immigration detention policies • immigration detention system • island immigrants • racialized history of immigration • Refugees • undocumented immigrants • us border patrol • us mexico border • us migration policy
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96296-6 / 0520962966
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96296-5 / 9780520962965