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Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
By Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc García
- ISBN
- 9781620974209 9781620974216
- Publisher
- New Pr.
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Starred Review on November 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
"Imprisonment is a chosen policy approach," says Hernández, law professor at the University of Denver, in this debut. "Chosen" is the key word: Who first chose to jail newcomers, and when did it become policy? Hernández has answers. After the Revolutionary War, when immigrants were no longer consistently Anglo, immigrants have been detained in unlivable conditions and prosecuted under unfair contexts. Hernández describes Chinese ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
