Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration, detention, deportation and the boundaries of domestic law.


Contributors: Dan Berger, Ethan Blue, George T. Díaz, David Hernandez, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Pippa Holloway, Volker Janssen, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Heather McCarty, Douglas K. Miller, Vivien Miller, Donna Murch, and Keramet Ann Reiter.

Author: Robert T. Chase
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/27/2019
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781469651248

About the Author
Rob Chase is assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University.