The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees.
We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times.
Deportation Nation is a chilling history of communal...
The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigr...
The topic of illegal immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. From the beginning of its modern invocation in the early twentieth century, the often ill-defined epithet of human illegality has figured prominently in the media; in vigorous public debates at the national, state, and local levels; and in presidential campaigns. In this collection of essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines anthropology, law, political science, religious studies, and sociology examine how immigration law shapes immigrant...
The topic of illegal immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. From t...
Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin. While the rights of immigrants-with or without legal status--as well as the appropriate pathway to legal status are the subject of much debate, hardly any attention has been paid to what actually happens to deportees once they "pass beyond our aid." In fact, we have fostered a new diaspora of deportees, many of whom are alone and isolated, with strong ties to their former communities in the United States. Daniel Kanstroom, author of the...
Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of ori...
Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with -green cards, - have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel--a life-time banishment from what is, in many cases, the only country they have ever known. U.S.-based families and communities face the loss of a worker, neighbor, spouse, parent, or child. Many of the deported are -sentenced home- to a country which they only knew as an infant, whose language they do...
Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with -green ...
