Rights, deportation, and detention in the age of immigration control /

Rights, deportation, and detention in the age of immigration control /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wong, Tom K., author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 236 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. Emigration and immigration law. Immigrants -- Civil rights. Deportation. Deportation. Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. Emigration and immigration law. Immigrants -- Civil rights. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241685

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ISBN:	9780804794572 080479457X 9780804793063 0804793069
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries "do what they do" when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control addresses this gap by examining what are arguably the most contested and dynamic immigration policies--immigration control--across 25 immigrant-receiving countries, including the U.S. and most of the European Union. The book addresses head on three of the most salient aspects of immigration control: the denial of rights to non-citizens, their physical removal and exclusion from the polity through deportation, and their deprivation of liberty and freedom of movement in immigration detention. In addition to answering the question of why states do what they do, the book describes contemporary trends in what Tom K. Wong refers to as the machinery of immigration control, analyzes the determinants of these trends using a combination of quantitative analysis and fieldwork, and explores whether efforts to deter unwanted immigration are actually working.
Other form:	Print version: Wong, Tom K. Rights, deportation, and detention in the age of immigration control 9780804793063
Standard no.:	40025086343

Table of Contents:

Immigration control in the age of migration
Human rights and immigration control wrongs
Deportation nations
The labyrinth of immigration detention
An effective deterrent, or smoke and mirrors?
Conclusion : migrants, agency, and the future of immigration control.