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Zusatztext "This urgent and original book offers an unflinching examination of the current U.S.deportation system and its many deleterious consequences for immigrant communitiesand the nation at large. Tanya Golash-Boza adopts a human rights perspective to shedlight on the 'immigration industrial complex!' describing in moving detail the impact onimmigrant communities and families. The accessible writing makes this book an excellentchoice for classroom adoption."-Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo! Professor of Sociology at the University of SouthernCalifornia and author of God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists areWorking for Immigrant Rights"This beautifully written and much-needed book illuminates the convergence of interestsbetween politicians and corporations by criminalizing immigrants. Built on a fearof crime and of foreigners! our current draconian immigration policies generate massiveprofits through incarceration and law enforcement. Framing her argument in a humanrights perspective! Tanya Golash-Boza outlines the violations and the steps needed tomove toward an immigration policy with a human rights vision."-Mary Romero! author of The Maid's Daughter! Living In and Out of the American Dream Informationen zum Autor Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria Klappentext Examines how U.S. immigration policies have had negative consequences for citizens! families and communities! not just for immigrants. Zusammenfassung Examines how U.S. immigration policies have had negative consequences for citizens, families and communities, not just for immigrants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 Roots of Immigration to the United States; Chapter 2 The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration Enforcement Regime of the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 3 Racism and the Consequences of U.S. Immigraton Policy; Chapter 4 The Impossible Choice; Chapter 5 The Immigration Industrial complex; conclusion Conclusion;...
