Space of Detention is a powerful ethnographic account and spatial analysis of the transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador. Elana Zilberg seeks to understand how this phenomenon became an issue of central concern for national and regional security, and how La Mara Salvatrucha, a gang founded by Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles, came to symbolize the gang crime terrorism continuum. She follows Salvadoran immigrants raised in Los Angeles, who identify as or are alleged to be gang members and who are deported back to El Salvador after their incarceration in...