From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America

by Patrisia Macias-Rojas

Book Overview

Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award

A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement

Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479831182
• ISBN13: 9781479831180
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"