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Books & eBooks

Migrating to Prison by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
ISBN: 9781620974209

Publication Date: 2019-12-03

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández explores the emergence of immigration imprisonment in the mid-1980s and looks at both the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law.
The Shadow of el Centro by Jessica Ordaz
ISBN: 9781469662466

Publication Date: 2021-03-01

The story shows how the U.S. detention system was built to extract labor, to discipline, and to control migration, and it helps us understand the long and shadowy history of how immigration officials went from detaining a few thousand unauthorized migrants during the 1940s to confining hundreds of thousands of people by the end of the twentieth century.
Baby Jails by Philip G. Schrag
ISBN: 9780520971097

Publication Date: 2020-01-21

"I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their children, most of whom seemed to be between three and eight years old, played with a few toys on the floor. It was hard for me to get my head around the idea of a jail full of toddlers, but there they were."
Through Iceboxes and Kennels by Luis H. Zayas
ISBN: 9780197668160

Publication Date: 2023-03-07

Through stories and thoughtful analysis, this book shows how migration and U.S. immigration detention harms the future of immigrant children and their parents.
Caging Borders and Carceral States by Robert T. Chase (Editor)
ISBN: 9781469651255

Publication Date: 2019-04-09

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty.
Welcome the Wretched by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
ISBN: 9781620977798

Publication Date: 2024-01-30

A powerful argument for separating immigration enforcement from the criminal legal system, by one of the nation's foremost "crimmigration" experts.
Forever Prisoners by Elliott Young
ISBN: 9780190085957

Publication Date: 2021-01-12

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and worked in this country for years, has left them vulnerable to the most extreme forms of state power.
Border Rhetorics by D. Robert DeChaine (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780817357160

Publication Date: 2012-08-30

Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity.
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law by Masumi Izumi
ISBN: 9781439917244

Publication Date: 2019-09-20

The Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention.

Multimedia

The Infiltrators. This is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center—on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse ‘prison break,’ things don’t go according to plan. By weaving together documentary footage of the real infiltrators with re-enactments of the events inside the detention center, this docu-thriller tells an incredible and thrilling true story in a genre-defying new cinematic language. Please note that Kanopy (and not ACC) requires that you create a free account before accessing.

Lumpkin, GA: The Hidden Heart of the American Immigration Crackdown. In a fading Georgia town, a community recalls its dark past and faces a grim present. An undocumented immigrant, caught in legal limbo and facing deportation, contemplates his future. In the midst of it all, a massive, private immigration prison generates millions in profits. Where these stories meet, the hidden epicenter of America’s immigration crackdown is revealed – a place called Lumpkin, GA. Please note that Kanopy (and not ACC) requires that you create a free account before accessing.