Detention empire : Reagan's war on immigrants and the seeds of resistance / Kristina Shull.
"The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration&...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration, it laid the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 327 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9798890861047 |