| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 413 pages) |
| Contents |
Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time -- Mariel Cubans: abandoned, again and again |
| Summary |
Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities |
| Analysis |
america |
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american gulag |
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american prisons |
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detention centers |
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federal officials |
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human cruelty |
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human rights violations |
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human rights |
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immigration and nationalization service |
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immigration detention |
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immigration history |
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immigration laws |
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immigration policies |
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immigration prisons |
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inhumane conditions |
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ins facilities |
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ins prisoners |
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ins |
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investigative journalism |
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jailers |
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prison system |
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prisoners |
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racial profiling |
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racism |
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repression |
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september 11 |
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us immigration policies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-381) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Government policy -- United States
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Human rights -- United States
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Emigration and immigration law
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Human rights
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Immigrants -- Government policy
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021697082 |
| ISBN |
9780520939271 |
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0520939271 |
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1417510617 |
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9781417510610 |
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0520239423 |
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9780520239425 |
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0520901789 |
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9780520901780 |
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1597344613 |
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9781597344616 |
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9780520246690 |
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0520246691 |
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