| Description |
1 online resource (385 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Study; 2. Setting and Sample; 3. Leaving for America; 4. Settlement; 5. Pathways to Crime; 6. Prison; 7. Deported; 8. Back in the Homeland: Part One; 9. Back in the Homeland: Part Two; 10. Back in the Homeland: Part Three; 11. The Return of the Deportees; 12. Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Since these deportees return to the country of their origin, many Americans assume repatriation will be easy and the emotional and financial hardships will be few, but in fact the opposite is true. Deportees suffer greatly when they are torn from their American families and social networks, and they are further demeaned as they resettle former homelands, blamed for crime waves, c. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dominican Republic -- Emigration and immigration.
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Dominican Republic. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Deportation -- Dominican Republic.
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Deportation. |
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Deportation -- United States.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Barrios, Luis, 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brotherton, David C. Banished to the Homeland : Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 9780231149358 |
| ISBN |
9780231520324 (electronic book) |
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0231520328 (electronic book) |
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9780231149341 |
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0231149344 |
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9780231149358 |
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0231149352 |
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