Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America

by Golash-Boza,Tanya Maria

• ISBN13: 9781594518386
• ISBN10: 1594518386
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Immigration Nation provides a critical analysis of the impact that U.S. immigration policy has on human rights. In the wake of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security was founded to protect America from the threat of terrorist attacks. However, along with dramatic, increases in immigration law enforcement raids, detentions, and deportations have-increased six-fold in the past decade American citizens, families, and communities have ultimately borne the cost. Although family reunification is officially a core component of U.S. immigration policy, these same policies often tear families apart. Pundits and politicians nearly always frame this debate in terms of security and economic needs, but here, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza addresses the debate with the human rights of migrants and their families at the center of her analyses. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza is an assistant professor of sociology and American studies at the University of Kansas. She has published articles on blackness in Peru, Latino/a identity in the U.S., and the human rights impact of U.S immigration policies. Her most recent work is a cross-national study of deportees in the Caribbean.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: How Punitive Immigration Policies Negatively Affect Citizens, Families, and Communities	p. 1
Roots of Immigration to the United States	p. 15
The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration Enforcement Regime of the Twenty-First Century	p. 45
Racism and the Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy	p. 81
The Impossible Choice: Family versus Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Policies	p. 109
The Immigration Industrial Complex: Who Profits from Immigration Policies Destined to Fail?	p. 139
Conclusion: Immigration Policy and Human Rights	p. 159
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 03
About the Author	p. 213
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