The Deportation Machine (eBook)

America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants

Adam Goodman (Autor)

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2020
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20199-3 (ISBN)

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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, "e;voluntary"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 40 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: activism • Affidavit • America for Americans • American Empire (series) • American History • americans • Ann Farnsworth-Alvear • anti-immigration policy • anti-Mexican sentiment • authorization • Border Region • border wall • Bracero Program • bureaucrat • Capitalism • Chinese Exclusion Act • Chinese immigrants • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Class action • Crime • Criminal charge • criminalization • Daniel Kanstroom • Deportation • Deportation nation • Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) • deportees • detention camps • Due Process • Ellis Island • Employment • Erika Lee • Exclusion • federal judge • Funding • General Counsel • Headline • illegal drug trade • Illegal Immigration • Illegals • Immigration • Immigration Act • Immigration Act of 1924 • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 • Immigration and Naturalization Service • immigration detention • immigration enforcement • Immigration History • Immigration Law • Immigration officer • Immigration Policy • Immigration Reform • Immigration to the United States • Imprisonment • Inauguration • injunction • internment • Inventing the Immigration Problem • Irish immigrants • Irreparable injury • Islamophobia • Italian Immigrants • Jalisco • Jewish immigrants • Jimmy Carter • Katherine Benton-Cohen • laborer • Law enforcement • lawyer • League of United Latin American Citizens • Legislation • Legislator • Long-term resident (European Union) • Mexican Americans • mexicans • Migrants • Migrant worker • militarization • Multiculturalism • Nationality • national Lawyers Guild • national security • Nativism (politics) • Nazism • newspaper • Operation Wetback • Opposition to immigration • Oral History • plaintiff • Plyler v. Doe • Police • Politician • Politics • Prison • Provision (contracting) • Publication • Publishing • Racism • Refugee • Refugee crisis • Refugees • Repatriation (humans) • residence • scapegoating • search warrant • Self-deportation • Sinophobia • Slavery • Smuggling • Tax • The New York Times • Trade Union • Trump’s wall • Unemployment • United States Citizenship and Immigration Services • United States Department of Homeland Security • Voluntary departure (United States) • Waiver • Wetback (slur) • Workforce • World War I • World War II • Xenophobia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20199-4 / 0691201994
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20199-3 / 9780691201993