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Detained : immigration laws and the expanding I.N.S. jail complex / Michael Welch.
- Title
- Detained : immigration laws and the expanding I.N.S. jail complex / Michael Welch.
- Author
- Welch, Michael, 1960-
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Details how American immigration law and policy have increasingly relied on incarceration, locking up thousands of immigrants not because they pose any real danger, but as a collective expression of moral panic and hostility toward perceived outsiders." David Cole [back cover].
- Subjects
- Noncitizens
- United States
- Illegal aliens
- USA > Government
- Recht
- Einwanderung
- Immigrants clandestins
- Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis
- Centres de détention (Immigration) > États-Unis
- Undocumented Immigrants
- Emigration and immigration > Government policy
- Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States
- Noncitizens > Government policy > United States
- United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy
- Noncitizen detention centers > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Moral panic over immigrants -- The campaign against immigrants -- Ironies of immigration control -- Criminalizing asylum seekers and the indefinitely detained -- Warehousing illegal immigrants -- Neglecting unaccompanied children -- The INS detention industry -- Reforming the system -- Epilogue: September 11, 2001, and the challenge ahead.
- ISBN
- 1566399777
- 1566399785
- 9781566399777
- 9781566399784
- LCCN
- 2002018087
- OCLC
- 49375150
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library