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BookAmerican gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons

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  • American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.

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  • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
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  • xiii, 413 p. ; 24 cm.

ISBN

  • 0520239423 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520239425 (cloth : alk. paper)

LC classification

  • JV6483 .D69 2004

Portion of title

  • Inside U.S. immigration prisons

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 (p. 373-381) and index.

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  • 2003026179

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  • 365/.4

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  • Book

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