Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement policies around the world. The United States has built a massive immigration enforcement system that detains and deports more people than any other country. This system is grounded in the assumptions that national borders are territorially fixed and controllable, and that detention and deportation bolster security and deter migration. Nancy Hiemstra's multisited ethnographic research pairs investigation of enforcement practices in the United States with an exploration into conditions migrants face in one country of origin: Ecuador. 00'Detain and Deport's transnational approach reveals how the U.S. immigration enforcement system's chaotic organization and operation distracts from the mismatch between these assumptions and actual outcomes. Hiemstra draws on the experiences of detained and deported migrants, as well as their families and communities in Ecuador, to show convincingly that instead of deterring migrants and improving national security, detention and deportation generate insecurities and forge lasting connections across territorial borders. At the same time, the system's chaos works to curtail rights and maintain detained migrants on a narrow path to deportation. Hiemstra argues that in addition to the racialized ideas of national identity and a fluctuating dependence on immigrant labor that have long propelled U.S. immigration policies, the contemporary emphasis on detention and deportation is fueled by the influence of people and entities that profit from them

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Hiemstra, Nancy; Doshi, Sapana; Coleman, Mathew

Geographies of justice and social transformation, Athens, Georgia, 2019

United States, United States of America

Mar 15, 2019

Memory of the World Librarian: outernationale

Source title: Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)

Detention and deportation have become keystones of immigration and border enforcement policies around the world. The United States has built a massive immigration enforcement system that detains and deports more people than any other country. This system is grounded in the assumptions that national borders are territorially fixed and controllable, and that detention and deportation bolster security and deter migration. Nancy Hiemstra’s multisided ethnographic research pairs investigation of enforcement practices in the United States with an exploration into conditions migrants face in one country of origin: Ecuador. Detain and Deport ’s transnational approach reveals how the U.S. immigration enforcement system’s chaotic organization and operation distracts from the mismatch between these assumptions and actual outcomes. Hiemstra draws on the experiences of detained and deported migrants, as well as their families and communities in Ecuador, to show convincingly that instead of deterring migrants and improving national security, detention and deportation generate insecurities and forge lasting connections across territorial borders. At the same time, the system’s chaos works to curtail rights and maintain detained migrants on a narrow path to deportation. Hiemstra argues that in addition to the racialized ideas of national identity and a fluctuating dependence on immigrant labor that have long propelled U.S. immigration policies, the contemporary emphasis on detention and deportation is fueled by the influence of people and entities that profit from them.
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Book Description
Reframing detention and deportation as policies that create new connections, blur state borders, and fail to meet primary objectives
About the Author
NANCY HIEMSTRA is an assistant professor at Stony Brook University. Hiemstra coedited Intimate Economics of Immigration Detention: Critical Perspectives . She has written articles for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , Annals of the Association of American Geographers , and Social & Cultural Geography , among others.

Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title 4
Copyright 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
List of Illustrations 10
Acknowledgments 12
List of Abbreviations 14
Introduction 18
CHAPTER 1 A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Detention and Deportation 27
CHAPTER 2 Ecuadorian Migration, U.S. Policy, and Human Smuggling 45
CHAPTER 3 The Making of a Massive System 63
CHAPTER 4 Ordering Chaos: System Organization and Operation 80
CHAPTER 5 The “Peculiar” Advantages of Chaos: Detainees’ Experiences 101
CHAPTER 6 “You Don’t Know How I Suffer, Waiting Every Day”: Reverberations of Detention in Ecuador 119
CHAPTER 7 “There Is No Other Way”: Postdeportation Insecurities and Continued Migration 135
CHAPTER 8 Ordering Chaos, Opening Space 151
APPENDIX A Interviewed Functionaries 156
APPENDIX B Interviewed Deportees, Basic Data 157
APPENDIX C Deportee Interview Question Guide 159
Notes 162
Bibliography 170
Index 194
A 194
B 194
C 194
D 194
E 196
F 196
G 196
H 196
I 197
J 197
K 197
L 197
M 198
N 198
O 198
P 198
Q 198
R 198
S 199
T 199
U 199
W 199

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