From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
Patrisia Macías-Rojas
€ 96.07
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
Hardback. Series: Latina/O Sociology. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFFN; JFSL4; JKV; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement
Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase?
From Deportation to Prison unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative—The Criminal Alien Program (CAP)—designed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Latina/O Sociology
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479804665
SKU
V9781479804665
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Patrisia Macías-Rojas
Patrisia Macías-Rojas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviews for From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
Patrisia Macias-Rojas book,From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, provides rich insight into domestic border security in the Southern Arizona/Sonora region.
Theory in Action
This is an important book that scholars of both immigration and criminalization should read. The argument [namely, that the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is responsible for a large ... Read more
Theory in Action
This is an important book that scholars of both immigration and criminalization should read. The argument [namely, that the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is responsible for a large ... Read more