Immigration Detention Inc. - The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants

Two experts in the field shine a critical light on the political economic practices of US immigration detention

About the author

Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime and co-editor of Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, US.
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.

Summary

Two experts in the field shine a critical light on the political economic practices of US immigration detention

Product details

• Authors: Deirdre Conlon, Conlon Deirdre, Nancy Hiemstra, Nancy Conlon Hiemstra, Hiemstra Nancy
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9780745349466
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4946-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; New York, New Jersey, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Political structures: democracy, immigration law, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social discrimination & inequality, Migration, immigration and emigration, Police & security services, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Police and security services, Social discrimination and social justice, Political structures / systems: democracy, New York (state)