Forever Prisoners
How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 April 2021
- ISBN 9780190085957
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 160x239x30 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 75
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Short description:
The first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States, Forever Prisoners narrates the stories of immigrants locked up by the US government from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how criminality has become conflated with undocumented migrants.
MoreLong description:
Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These men, women, and children remain almost completely without rights, unprotected by law and the Constitution, and their status as outsiders, even though many of have lived and worked in this country for years, has left them vulnerable to the most extreme forms of state power. Although the rhetoric surrounding these individuals is extreme, the US government has been locking up immigrants since the late nineteenth century, often for indefinite periods and with limited ability to challenge their confinement.
Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation. Young shows how foreigners have been caged not just for immigration violations, but also held in state and federal prisons for criminal offenses, in insane asylums for mental illness, as enemy aliens in INS facilities, and in refugee camps. Since the 1980s, the conflation of criminality with undocumented migrants has given rise to the most extensive system of immigrant incarceration in the nation's history. Today over half a million immigrants are caged each year, some serving indefinite terms in what has become the world's most extensive immigrant detention system. And yet, Young finds, the rate of all forms of incarceration for immigrants was as high in the early twentieth century as it is today, demonstrating a return to past carceral practices.
Providing critical historical context for today's news cycle, Forever Prisoners focuses on the sites of limbo where America's immigration population have been and continue to be held.
A timely, welcome, and innovative addition to the rich scholarship on mass incarceration...[and] immigration....This is an ambitious book, one that deftly incorporates the now rather well-known history of anti-immigrant politics, exclusionary laws and practices, nativist policies, Supreme Court decisions, and foreign entanglements. However, by placing immigrant detention at the center of his work, Young forces readers to grapple with the magnitude of why and how the United States has incarcerated millions of immigrants, as well as the experiences of those who found themselves confined behind bars. Furthermore, by profiling the experiences of immigrants who were housed in hospitals, insane asylums, and charitable establishments, Young includes institutions that might at first glance seem like a part of the history of mental health or philanthropy and not a part of the broader history of immigrant detention.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Building the Largest Immigrant Detention Regime on the Planet
Chapter One: Chinese at McNeil Island Federal Prison in the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter Two: Nathan Cohen, the Man Without a Country
Chapter Three: Japanese Peruvian Enemy Aliens during World War Two
Chapter Four: "We Have No End." Mariel Cuban Prison Uprising in Oakdale and Atlanta
Chapter Five: "A Particularly Serious Crime." Mayra Machado in an Age of Crimmigration
Conclusion: Indefinite Detention from Guantanamo, Cuba to Jena, Louisiana
Notes
Index
