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Author Hiemstra, Nancy, author.

Title Detain and deport : the chaotic U.S. immigration enforcement regime / Nancy Hiemstra
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : maps
Series Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 43
Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 43.
Contents A transnational ethnography of U.S. detention and deportation -- Ecuadorian migration, U.S. policy, and human smuggling -- The making of a massive system -- Ordering chaos : system organization and operation -- The "peculiar" advantages of chaos : detainees' experiences -- "You don't know how I suffer, waiting every day" : reverberations of detention in Ecuador -- "There is no other way" : postdeportation insecurities and continued migration -- Ordering chaos, opening space -- Appendix A. Interviewed functionaries -- Appendix B. Interviewed deportees, basic data -- Appendix C. Deportee interview question guide
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-175) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Deportation -- Government policy -- United States
Detention of persons -- Government policy -- United States
Noncitizens -- Government policy -- United States
Illegal immigration -- Government policy -- United States
Noncitizens.
Undocumented Immigrants
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Noncitizens
Detention of persons -- Government policy
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Noncitizens -- Government policy
Noncitizens.
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0820354643
9780820354644
Other Titles Chaotic United States immigration enforcement regime
Chaotic U.S. immigration enforcement regime