Eastwind Books of Berkeley
  • Home
  • Donate!
  • Eastwind Events
    • Past Eastwind Events
    • Eastwind Book Club
  • Author Spotlights
  • Holiday Books & Gifts
  • Greeting Cards
  • VAALA Viet Book Fest
  • Distributed by Eastwind
  • Asian American Studies
    • Chinese American Studies
    • Filipino American Studies
    • Japanese American Studies
    • Korean American Studies
    • South Asian American Studies
    • Southeast Asian American Studies
  • Asian American Literature
    • Chinese American Literature
    • Japanese American Literature
    • Korean American Literature
    • Filipinx American Literature
    • Southeast Asian American Literature
    • South Asian American Literature
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Ethnic Studies
    • African American Studies
    • Chicanx/Latinx Studies
    • Native American Studies
    • Pacific Islander Am. Studies
  • Ethnic Literature
    • African American Literature
    • Chicanx/Latinx Literature
    • Native American Literature
    • Pacific Islander Am. Listerature
  • Children & Young Readers
    • African American Children's Books
    • Chinese Children's Books
    • Filipino Children's Books
    • Japanese Children's Books
    • Korean Children's Books
    • South Asian Children's Books
    • Southeast Asian Children's Books
  • Poetry
    • Chinese American Poetry
    • Japanese American Poetry
    • Korean American Poetry
    • Filipino American Poetry
    • Southeast Asian American Poetry
  • Graphic Novels
  • Food & Cook Books
  • Asia
    • Asian Literature and Poetry
    • Asian Fantasy & Sci Fi
  • Merchandise & Gifts
    • Eastwind Merchandise
    • Haruyo Knechtli Ceramics >
      • Ceramics
    • Southeast Asian Art Prints
    • Journals & Notebooks
  • More Categories
    • Arts & Crafts/Art Supplies
    • Martial Arts & Qigong
    • Philosophy
    • Religion and Spirituality
    • Medicine
    • Culture
    • Film & Media
    • History >
      • Bay Area History
  • Textbooks
  • Used Books
  • About Us
    • Subscribe to Our Newsletter
    • Directions
  • Contact Us
    • FAQ
2066 University Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704
Monday - Saturday: 12-4pm
​Sunday: Closed
  • Ethnic Studies
  • >
  • Chicano Studies
  • >
  • From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America

From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America

SKU: 9781479831180
$29.00
$27.00
$27.00
On Sale
Unavailable
per item

Author: Patrisia Macias-Rojas

Format: Paperback

Condition: New

Publisher: NYU

Year: 2016

ISBN: 9781479831180


Description


Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award


A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement


Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase?


From Deportation to Prison unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative--The Criminal Alien Program (CAP)--designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, the findings in this book reveal how the Criminal Alien Program quietly set off a punitive turn in immigration enforcement that has fundamentally altered detention, deportation, and criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses.


Patrisia Macías-Rojas presents a "street-level" perspective on how this new regime has serious lived implications for the day-to-day actions of Border Patrol agents, local law enforcement, civil and human rights advocates, and for migrants and residents of predominantly Latina/o border communities.


About the Author

Patrisia Macías-Rojas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


Reviews

"This is an important book that scholars of both immigration and criminalization should read. The argument [namely, that the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is responsible for a large portion of deportations] is well constructed and provocative, and Macías-Rojas breaks new empirical and theoretical ground."--International Migration Review


"The book largely brackets out activities of the powerful private prison-industrial complex, an important player in the growing criminalization of immigrants the book significantly our understanding of how and why the current immigration enforcement debacle came to be. It will be of particular interest scholars of race and immigration, inequality, and public policy."--American Journal of Sociology


"Patrisia Macias-Rojas book, From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, provides rich insight into domestic border security in the Southern Arizona/Sonora region."--Theory in Action


"In From Deportation to Prison, Patrisia Macías-Rojas aptly situates the current deportation regime within a broader historical context by drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, hundreds of in-depth interviews in southern Arizona, and archival research in Washington, DC. Furthermore, Macías-Rojas contributes to the burgeoning deportation literature by drawing connections between the current deportation regime and mass incarceration in the United States."--Journal of American Ethnic History


"Patrisia Macias-Rojas' commanding book narrates the profound restructuring of immigration policies in the US. Using rich ethnographic data and sharp policy analyses, she shows how the merging of enforcement and deportation policies with the rigid structures of the criminal justice system result in a vicious punishment regime. The book makes a compelling case for cross-movement organizing and is essential reading for scholars, activists and policy makers."--Beth E. Richie, author of Arrested Justice


"Patrisia Macías-Rojas is a sociologist and yet her in-depth ethnographic fieldwork will be very familiar to readers with a background in Anthropology Political and legal anthropologists, especially those working with fraught social issues, will likely consider Macías-Rojas research design a model of exceptionally solid empirical work."--Polar Journal


"From Deportation to Prison provides a fascinating and original view of the day-to-day workings of the immigration detention system, based on fieldwork, interviews, and archival research conducted over a 10 year period. An exciting and high-quality work."--Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Nation of Emigrants

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Google+
2 available
Add to Cart
Want to stay updated on Eastwind events and special deals? Click here to subscribe to our newsletter so you never have to miss a thing! 

OUR SERVICES

Retail Bookseller
Book Promotions & Events
Institutional Sales
Special Orders
COMPANY

About Us
Contact Us
Directions
SUPPORT

International Orders
FAQ
Terms of Use
Copyright © 2014 ; 2066 University Avenue, Berkeley ; (510) 548-2350; eastwindbooks@gmail.com

We are closed for the following holidays: 
New Year's Day 
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day 
Thanksgiving Day, day after Thanksgiving
Christmas Day, day after Christmas