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23 30: una historia cautiva by Call Number: Streaming videoThe stories of Mourtada, Samuel and Peggy bring to light the dark and troubling world of detention centres for undocumented immigrants who have not committed a (serious) crime. With in-depth analysis from experts with diverse backgrounds, politics, and perspectives, we learn about the significant human cost of the immigration enforcement system.- Detention in America by Call Number: Streaming mediaAn investigation by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein, joined by 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, uncovers the neglectful conditions and inadequate medical treatment in a U.S. government-run prison system.
Geography of immigration and immigrants from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002Scholarship on immigration addresses all aspects of the movement of people across international borders. Such research might focus on the reasons why people leave their home countries, pathways of flows between countries, policies designed to regulate international migration flows, and the receptiveness of host societies toward immigrants, among many others. Geographical scholarship on immigration is distinguished from other disciplines by its focus on the spatial aspects of the migration process.
A related definition
Homo sacer
A person who is located outside the law, whose life is deemed of no value and who may therefore be killed with impunity. Meaning ‘sacred man’ in Latin, the term originally referred to certain categories of person under Roman law. In recent years it has been elaborated by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explore the ways in which sovereign power relegates some persons to states of ‘bare life’, i.e. exposed to violence. Geographers interested in prisons, immigrant detention centres, and sites of extreme state violence have used and reflected on this concept (see Guantánamo Bay). See also biopolitics.
Rogers, A., Castree, N., & Kitchin, R. (2013). Homo sacer. In A Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 May. 2023
In the Library's collections
- undocumented immigrants"illegal aliens" used to be subject heading used in the catalog. That has changed.
Introductory reading(s)
Borders, asylum and global non-citizenship: the other side of the fence by Call Number: Baker-Berry JV 6225 .J65 2014ISBN: 9781107061835The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Using qualitative field research in Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia, Heather L. Johnson asks how a global regime of migration management and control can be perceived through the dynamics of particular border spaces: refugee camps, border zones and detention centres. She explores how irregular migrants are impacted by the increasingly security-oriented practices of border control, and how they confront these practices. ...
Challenging immigration detention: academics, activists and policy-makers by Call Number: Baker-Berry K 3275 .C43 2017ISBN: 9781785368059Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human rights and prevent detention abuses. ...
Immigration detention: law, history, politics by Call Number: Baker-Berry K 3277 .W55 2012ISBN: 9781107005761The liberal legal ideal of protection of the individual against administrative detention without trial is embodied in the habeas corpus tradition. However, the use of detention to control immigration has gone from a wartime exception to normal practice, thus calling into question modern states' adherence to the rule of law. Daniel Wilsher traces how modern states have come to use long-term detention of immigrants without judicial control. ...
Rights, deportation, and detention in the age of immigration control by Call Number: Baker-Berry JV 6271 .W66 2015ISBN: 9780804793063Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries "do what they do" when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control addresses this gap by examining what are arguably the most contested and dynamic immigration policies--immigration control--across 25 immigrant-receiving countries, including the U.S. and most of the European Union. ...
Selected book title(s)
Borderline slavery: Mexico, United States, and the human trade by Call Number: Baker-Berry HQ 281 .B67 2012ISBN: 9781409439684Exploring human trafficking in the US - Mexico borderlands as a regional expression of a pressing global problem, Borderline Slavery sheds light on the contexts and causes of trafficking, offering policy recommendations for addressing it that do justice to border communities' complex circumstances. This book focuses on both sexual and labor trafficking, proceeding thematically from global to regional levels to provide an empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and policy-relevant approach, which examines the problem through the eyes of scholars and researchers from various fields, as well as journalists, public officials, law enforcement personnel, victims' advocates and NGO representatives. ...
The concealment controversy: sexual orientation, discretion reasoning and the scope of refugee protection by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781108938402The idea that a claim for international protection can be rejected on the basis that the claimant behave 'discreetly' in their country of origin has remained resilient in asylum claims based on sexual orientation, but also other grounds of claim. This is significant because requiring an asylum-seeker to forgo the reason for which they are persecuted questions the very rationale of refugee protection. This book represents the first principled examination of concealment in refugee law. Janna Wessels connects the different strands of the long-standing debate in both common and civil law jurisdictions and scholarship concerning the question of whether and under which circumstances a claimant must conceal to avoid persecution. ...
Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective by Call Number: Baker-Berry JV 6029 .I44 2008ISBN: 9789089640475This incisive volume combines two important issues in contemporary debates over migration: gender and illegal migration. The authors reconsider migration scholarship through the lens of gender in order to investigate definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for men and women. ...
National insecurities: immigrants and U.S. deportation policy since 1882 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469628349For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context. Focusing on several ethnic groups, Moloney closely examines how gender and race led to differences in the implementation of U.S. immigration policy as well as how poverty, sexuality, health, and ideologies were regulated at the borders. ...
Without a country: the untold story of America's deported veterans by Call Number: Baker-Berry UB 357 .G38 2017ISBN: 9781510722439Many Americans believe service in the military to be a quintessential way to demonstrate patriotism. We expect those who serve to be treated with respect and dignity. However, as in so many aspects of our politics, the reality and our ideals diverge widely in our treatment of veterans. There is perhaps no starker example of this than the continued practice of deporting men and women who have served. J. Malcolm Garcia has traveled across the country and abroad to interview veterans who have been deported, as well as the families and friends they have left behind, giving the full scope of the tragedy to be found in this all too common practice. Without a Country analyzes the political climate that has led us here and takes a hard look at the toll deportation has taken on American vets and their communities. ...
Internet resource(s)
- ACLU - Immigrants' Rights
When the government has the power to deny legal rights and due process to one vulnerable group, everyone’s rights are at risk. The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them. - Detention Facility Locator from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)
A locator for finding detention centers around the United States. - Detention Watch Network
Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States. - Freedom for Immigrants
Freedom for Immigrants is devoted to abolishing immigration detention, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit-driven system. They also gather statistics on people held in prisons and detention centers. - Global Detention Project
The Global Detention Project (GDP) is a non-profit organisation that promotes the human rights of people who have been detained for reasons related to their non-citizen status. - Homeland Security - Citizenship and Immigration Services
Managed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the United States’ lawful immigration system is one of the most generous in the world. - Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe mission of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety.
- Human Rights first: Immigration Detention
The U.S. government’s current policy of choice is to lock up asylum seekers—including families with young children—in immigration detention centers. These jail-like facilities often exacerbate the trauma asylum seekers face and impede access to legal counsel. They press the U.S. government to end this harmful policy and permit individuals to pursue their claims in the community.
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