Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

Paradigm Publishers, 2011 - Political Science - 211 pages

In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created to prevent terrorist attacks in the US.This led to dramatic increases in immigration law enforcement - raids, detentions and deportations have increased six-fold. Immigration Nation critically analyses the human rights impact of this tightening of US immigration policy. Golash-Boza reveals that it has had consequences not just for immigrants, but for citizens, families and communities. She shows that even though family reunification is officially a core component of US immigration policy, it has often torn families apart. This is a critical and revealing look at the real life - frequently devastating - impact of immigration policy in a security conscious world.

About the author

Tanya Golash-Boza is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies at the University of Kansas. She has published articles on blackness in Peru, Latino/a identity in the U.S., and the human rights impact of U.S. immigration policies. Her most recent work is a cross-national study of deportees in the Caribbean.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America
• Author: Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishers, 2011
• ISBN: 1594518386, 9781594518386
• Length: 211 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Civil Rights; Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Human Rights; Political Science / Public Policy / Immigration; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General