The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5, 000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52, 000 by 2019. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power, as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up.
Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning exposé of the ways immigration detention generates income while those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operation. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US.
Coming at a pivotal social and political moment, Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.
Tabla de materias
Introduction: Immigration Detention Inc.’s deep dependencies
1. Probing U.S. Detention’s Unhealthy Growth
2. ‘Meatballs that smell like fecal matter’: When Bad Food is the Business Model
3. ‘Cost containment’ and Litigation: The Institutionalization of Medical Neglect
4. Starved for Profit: How Migrants Become Captive Consumers and Coerced Workers
5. The Accountability Industry: Rubber-stamping Bad Care
6. Breaking Unjust Detention Dependencies
Afterword: Chaos and Cruelty in the First Month of the Second Trump Administration
Notes
Index
Sobre el autor
Deirdre Conlon is a critical geographer working in the US and Britain. Her work focuses on how immigration and border controls are proliferating as they are monetized. She is co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention and Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention. She is Associate Professor based at the University of Leeds.
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