The New Deportations Delirium. Interdisciplinary Responses.
Daniel Kanstroom
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Description for The New Deportations Delirium. Interdisciplinary Responses.
Hardback. Editor(s): Lykes, M. Brinton; Kanstroom, Daniel. Series: Citizenship and Migration in the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 not speak, or where a family lives in extreme poverty ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479868674
SKU
V9781479868674
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About Daniel Kanstroom
Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law and Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. He is the founder of the Immigration and Asylum Clinic and co-founder of the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project. He is the author of Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora and Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History. M. Brinton Lykes is Professor ... Read more
Reviews for The New Deportations Delirium. Interdisciplinary Responses.
The New Deportation Deliriumis a timely and informative book, and American citizens and policymakers would be well served to acquaint themselves with its message.
Anthropology Review Database
By analyzing the critical ambiguities in current deportation law, the plight of & mixed-status families, the pressures facing immigration judges, and many other problems, this book makes a substantial contribution.
... Read more
Anthropology Review Database
By analyzing the critical ambiguities in current deportation law, the plight of & mixed-status families, the pressures facing immigration judges, and many other problems, this book makes a substantial contribution.
... Read more