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Author Andrews, Abigail, author

Title Banished men : how migrants endure the violence of deportation / Abigail Andrews
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
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Contents Introduction -- Policed -- Locked up and broken down -- Forced out of families -- No place called home -- Banished -- Reclaiming removal -- Conclusion : the opposite of banishment is care -- Appendix : Interviewee demographics
Summary "What becomes of men the US locks up and kicks out? From 2009 to 2020, the US deported more than five million people-over 90 percent of them men. Banished Men tells 186 of their stories. How, it asks, does forced expulsion shape men's lives and sense of themselves? In this book, a team of thirty-one Latinx students and an award-winning scholar of gender and migrant exclusion uncover a harrowing system that weaves together policing, prison, detention, removal, and border militarization-and overwhelmingly targets men. Guards and gangs beat them down, both literally and metaphorically, as if they are no more than vermin or livestock. Their ties with family are severed. In Mexico, they end up banished: in limbo and stripped of humanity. They do not go "home." Their fight for new ways of belonging, as people of both "here" and "there," forms a devastating, humane, and clear-eyed critique of the violence of deportation"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Deportation -- United States -- 21st century
Male immigrants -- Violence against -- Mexico -- 21st century
Immigration enforcement -- United States -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Deportation.
Immigration enforcement.
Mexico.
United States.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023001531
ISBN 9780520395985
0520395980