Detain and punish [electronic resource] : Haitian refugees and the rise of the world's largest immigration detention system / Carl Lindskoog.

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This book provides the first in-depth history of immigration detention in the United States. Employing extensive archival research to document the origins and development of immigration detention in the U.S. from 1973 to 2000, it reveals how the world's largest detention system originated in the U.S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindskoog, Carl (Author)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Haitians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Detention of persons > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Preparing the return of immigration detention, 1973-1980
  • The refugee crisis of 1980: forging the detention tool
  • Immigration detention reborn, 1981-1982
  • Constructing the detention regime, building resistance, 1981-1991
  • Guantanamo: new frontiers in detention, 1991-1994
  • Reinforcing the detention system, 1994-2000.