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A compelling work that exposes the hidden histories of El Centro and detention centers more generally . . . a nuanced approach to current scholarship by analyzing the long and continuous histories of violence that have been prevalent in these detention centers from their inception, and not necessarily as a more recent product of neoliberal practices and policies.""--Society for U.S. Intellectual History Illuminating.""--NACLA Report One of few works that fulfills its promise to tell a desire-based narrative of 'transnational migrant solidarity' without losing the analytical power necessary to confront immigrant incarceration in the US. . . . This short book packs a powerful punch . . . [and] explains the rise of the immigrant punishment system without attributing a complex issue solely to race, capitalism, or xenophobia.""--""Antipode Ordaz deftly shows the extent to which detention, control, and violence have come to dominate America's response to undocumented immigration through a history of one of America's oldest detention facilities.""--Boom California

One of few works that fulfills its promise to tell a desire-based narrative of transnational migrant solidarity without losing the analytical power necessary to confront immigrant incarceration in the US. . . . This short book packs a powerful punch . . . [and] explains the rise of the immigrant punishment system without attributing a complex issue solely to race, capitalism, or xenophobia.--Antipode

""A compelling history grounded in the El Centro Detention Center in the Imperial Valley border region of California. . . . By centering detentions as anything but new and anything but a simply transactional moment in a benign process, this book contributes to critical histories of repression and resistance in the United States to further argue that racial violence is embedded within the immigration regime, and its reform is untenable.""--Pacific Historical Review ""Jessica Ordaz's The Shadow of El Centro revisits [the history of migrant incarceration] through a deep exploration of one migrant detention center in Southern California from 1945-2014. . . . The author does a good job of highlighting the local story of El Centro without losing sight of the national and international context. . . . Ordaz argues that the migrant detention system in the present is not broken and 'cannot be reformed, because violence is the core of its essence.' If you need convincing on this point, read this book.""--New Mexico Historical Review ""A compelling work that exposes the hidden histories of El Centro and detention centers more generally . . . a nuanced approach to current scholarship by analyzing the long and continuous histories of violence that have been prevalent in these detention centers from their inception, and not necessarily as a more recent product of neoliberal practices and policies.""--Society for U.S. Intellectual History ""Illuminating.""--NACLA Report ""One of few works that fulfills its promise to tell a desire-based narrative of 'transnational migrant solidarity' without losing the analytical power necessary to confront immigrant incarceration in the US. . . . This short book packs a powerful punch . . . [and] explains the rise of the immigrant punishment system without attributing a complex issue solely to race, capitalism, or xenophobia.""--Antipode ""Ordaz deftly shows the extent to which detention, control, and violence have come to dominate America's response to undocumented immigration through a history of one of America's oldest detention facilities.""--Boom California

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Jessica Ordaz is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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