Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System Young

Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190085957,0190085959,9780190085971, 0190085975

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190085975
• ISBN-13: 9780190085971
• Author: Elliott Young

Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an “insane” Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation.

Table contents:

1. Dawn of Immigrant Incarceration: Chinese and Other Aliens at McNeil Island Prison
2. Nathan Cohen, the Man without a Country
3. Japanese Peruvian Enemy Aliens during World War II
4. “We Have No End”: Mariel Cuban Prisoners Rise Up
5. “A Particularly Serious Crime”: Mayra Machado in an Age of Crimmigration

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