American gulag [electronic resource] : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004.Description: xiv, 414 p. : illOther title:
  • Inside U.S. immigration prisons
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 365/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • JV6483 .D69 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time.

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