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

Author/creator Dow, Mark
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxiii, 413 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Immigrants--Government policy. --United States.
Human rights--United States.
Emigration and immigration law--United States.
Noncitizen detention centers--United States.
United States--Emigration and immigration. --Government policy.

Portion of title Inside U.S. immigration prisons
Contents Prologue : "Let this be home" -- 1. Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- 2. September 11 : secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- 3. Another world, another nation : Miami's Krome Detention Center -- 4. "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- 5. The world's first private prison -- 6. "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- 7. The art of jailing -- 8. "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- 9. Siege, shackles, climate, design -- 10. "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- 11. Good and evil in New England -- 12. Out West : philosophy and despair -- 13. Dead time -- 14. Mariel Cubans : abandoned, again and again -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Local noteLittle-344705--305131050267X
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index.
LCCN 2003026179
ISBN0520239423 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520239425 (cloth : alk. paper)