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Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance

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Robert T. Chase
2019
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This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration, detention, deportation and the boundaries of domestic law.


Contributors: Dan Berger, Ethan Blue, George T. Díaz, David Hernandez, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Pippa Holloway, Volker Janssen, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Heather McCarty, Douglas K. Miller, Vivien Miller, Donna Murch, and Keramet Ann Reiter.

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PART I: From Western Conquests to Border Cages: Borderlands, Immigration, West
PART II: Prison Labor and Gender from South to Sunbelt
PART III: Constructing the Sunbelt Prison Industrial Complex
PART IV: Resistance: Confronting the Carceral State
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