| Description |
xiii, 413 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-381) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : "Let this be home" -- 1. Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- 2. September 11 : secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- 3. Another world, another nation : Miami's Krome Detention Center -- 4. "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- 5. The world's first private prison -- 6. "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- 7. The art of jailing -- 8. "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- 9. Siege, shackles, climate, design -- 10. "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- 11. Good and evil in New England -- 12. Out West : philosophy and despair -- 13. Dead time -- 14. Mariel Cubans : abandoned, again and again -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Immigrants -- Government policy -- United States.
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Noncitizen detention centers -- United States.
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Human rights -- United States.
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
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| Added Title |
Inside U.S. immigration prisons |
| ISBN |
0520239423 cloth alkaline paper |
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