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's glo...
Uniform Title: | Justice, power, and politics.
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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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Physical Description: | xix, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Variant Title: |
Reagan's war on immigrants and the seeds of resistance |
Format: | Book |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | JV6483 .S57 2022 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781469669854 1469669854 9781469669861 1469669862 |