The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants / Adam Goodman.
"By most accounts, the United States has deported around five million people since 1882-but this includes only what the federal government calls "formal deportations." "Voluntary departures," where undocumented immigrants who have been detained agree to leave within a specif...
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[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Understanding the Machine
- One. Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Two. Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback
- Three. The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation
- Four. Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion
- Five. Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts
- Six. Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration
- Epilogue: Reckoning with the Machine
- Note on Sources and Language
- Acknowledgments.