Overview
Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement policies around the world. The United States has built a massive immigration enforcement system that detains and deports more people than any other country. This system is grounded in the assumptions that national borders are territorially fixed and controllable, and that detention and deportation bolster security and deter migration. Nancy Hiemstra’s multisited ethnographic research pairs investigation of enforcement practices in the United States with an exploration into conditions migrants face in one country of origin: Ecuador. Detain and Deport’s transnational approach reveals how the U.S. immigration enforcement system’s chaotic organization and operation distracts from the mismatch between these assumptions and actual outcomes. Hiemstra draws on the experiences of detained and deported migrants, as well as their families and communities in Ecuador, to show convincingly that instead of deterring migrants and improving national security, detention and deportation generate insecurities and forge lasting connections across territorial borders. At the same time, the system’s chaos works to curtail rights and maintain detained migrants on a narrow path to deportation. Hiemstra argues that in addition to the racialized ideas of national identity and a fluctuating dependence on immigrant labor that have long propelled U.S. immigration policies, the contemporary emphasis on detention and deportation is fueled by the influence of people and entities that profit from them.
Full Product Details
Author: Nancy Hiemstra ,
Sapana Doshi ,
Mathew Coleman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Weight: 0.447kg
ISBN: 9780820354651
ISBN 10: 0820354651
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 15 March 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Detain and Deport: The Chaotic US Immigration Enforcement Regime is a welcome addition to the literature on immigration policy, border regimes, US border enforcement, and more importantly, the complex labyrinth of the US immigration system. . . . Scholars in multiple social science disciplines will find this book applicable to their current streams of immigration research.--Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman ""Urban Studies Journal""
Scholars in multiple social science disciplines will find this book applicable to their current streams of immigration research.--Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman Urban Studies Journal
Author Information
NANCY HIEMSTRA is an assistant professor at Stony Brook University. Hiemstra coedited Intimate Economics of Immigration Detention: Critical Perspectives. She has written articles for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Social & Cultural Geography, among others.
