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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

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 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 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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