Research Catalog

Title

The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants / Adam Goodman.

Author

Goodman, Adam (Historian)

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

ix, 322 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. This provocative, eye-opening book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time. In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. He reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns. Goodman uncovers the machine's three primary mechanisms--formal deportations, "voluntary" departures, and self-deportations--and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion. This revelatory book chronicles the devastating human costs of deportation and the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the machine and redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship

Series Statement

Politics and Society in Modern America

Uniform Title

Politics and society in modern America.

Subjects

• United States
• Citizenship
• Immigrants
• Deportation
• Informational works
• History
• Emigration and immigration > Government policy
• United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy
• Citizenship > United States > History
• Immigrants > United States > History
• Emigration and immigration law > History
• Deportation > United States > History

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Note

• "The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives"--Page 2 of cover

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-309) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Understanding the Machine -- One. Creating the Mechanisms of Expulsion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Two. Coerced Removal from the Great Depression through Operation Wetback -- Three. The Human Costs of the Business of Deportation -- Four. Manufacturing Crisis and Fomenting Fear at the Dawn of the Age of Mass Expulsion -- Five. Fighting the Machine in the Streets and in the Courts -- Six. Deportation in an Era of Militarized Borders and Mass Incarceration -- Epilogue: Reckoning with the Machine.

Call Number

JV6483 2020

ISBN

• 9780691182155
• 0691182159

LCCN

2020931366

OCLC

1125975456

Author

Goodman, Adam (Historian), author.

Title

The deportation machine : America's long history of expelling immigrants / Adam Goodman.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Politics and Society in Modern America

Politics and society in modern America.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-309) and index.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR JV6483 2020

JFE 21-8927