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Author Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria, author.

Title Deported : immigrant policing, disposable labor, and global capitalism / Tanya Maria Golash-Boza.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Latina/o sociology series
Latina/o sociology series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Mass deportation and the neoliberal cycle -- Growing up : yearning for a new life -- Crossing over : rising life and facing increased border security -- Interlude : Samuel -- Becoming (Black and Latino) American : the impact of policing -- Interlude : Juan Pablo -- The war on drugs : getting ensnared by the criminal justice system -- Interlude : Katy -- Getting caught : targets of deportation policy -- Behind bars : immigration detention and prison life -- Back home : disposable labor and the impacts of deportation -- Conclusion: Global apartheid.
Summary "The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997--twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is a disturbing pattern in the population deported: 97% of deportees are sent to Latin America or the Caribbean, and 88% are men, many of whom were originally detained through the U.S. criminal justice system. Weaving together hard-hitting critique and moving first-person testimonials, Deported tells the intimate stories of people caught in an immigration law enforcement dragnet that serves the aims of global capitalism. Tanya Golash-Boza uses the stories of 147 of these deportees to explore the racialized and gendered dimensions of mass deportation in the United States, showing how this crisis is embedded in economic restructuring, neoliberal reforms, and the disproportionate criminalization of black and Latino men. In the United States, outsourcing creates service sector jobs and more of a need for the unskilled jobs that attract immigrants looking for new opportunities, but it also leads to deindustrialization, decline in urban communities, and, consequently, heavy policing. Many immigrants are exposed to the same racial profiling and policing as native-born blacks and Latinos. Unlike the native-born, though, when immigrants enter the criminal justice system, deportation is often their only way out. Ultimately, Golash-Boza argues that deportation has become a state strategy of social control, both in the United States and in the many countries that receive deportees."--Publisher's web site.
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Rider University Libraries acknowledges the biased and pejorative nature of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) “Aliens” “Alien…” and "Illegal aliens" to refer to noncitizens and undocumented immigrants, respectively--and the harm it causes. While a change in terminology was approved by the Library of Congress in 2016, it was not enacted due to opposition by the 115th Congress (2017). As Rider University Libraries uses LCSH as its standard vocabulary, we are currently investigating how to best enact alternative terminology that will still ensure access to all materials on this topic.
Subject Illegal immigration -- United States.
Illegal immigration.
United States.
Deportation -- United States.
Deportation.
Foreign workers -- United States.
Foreign workers.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Government policy.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. Deported 9781479894666 (DLC) 2015019580 (OCoLC)910664350
ISBN 9781479859443 (electronic book)
1479859443 (electronic book)
9781479894666
1479894664
9781479843978
1479843970
Standard No. 40025653789