The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants / Adam Goodman.

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"This revelatory book chronicles the devastating human costs of deportation and the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the machine and redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship."--Page 3 of cover

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodman, Adam (Historian) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Deportation > United States > History.
Emigration and immigration law > History.
Immigrants > United States > History.
Citizenship > United States > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Citizenship.
Deportation.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration law.
Immigrants.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Understanding the Machine
  • One. Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • Two. Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback
  • Three. The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation
  • Four. Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion
  • Five. Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts
  • Six. Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration
  • Epilogue: Reckoning with the Machine.