Table of Contents:
  • A transnational ethnography of U.S. detention and deportation
  • Ecuadorian migration, U.S. policy, and human smuggling
  • The making of a massive system
  • Ordering chaos : system organization and operation
  • The "peculiar" advantages of chaos : detainees' experiences
  • "You don't know how I suffer, waiting every day" : reverberations of detention in Ecuador
  • "There is no other way" : postdeportation insecurities and continued migration
  • Ordering chaos, opening space
  • Appendix A. Interviewed functionaries
  • Appendix B. Interviewed deportees, basic data
  • Appendix C. Deportee interview question guide.