Research Catalog

Title

Protect, serve, and deport : the rise of policing as immigration enforcement / Amada Armenta.

Author

Armenta, Amada, 1982-

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xi, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals, but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver removable immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging."--Provided by publisher

Subject

• Universidad Sergio Arboleda
• Noncitizens > Government policy > United States
• Immigration enforcement > Nashville
• Latin Americans > Nashville
• Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States
• Noncitizens
• Undocumented Immigrants
• Émigration et immigration > Application > Nashville
• Latino-Américains > Nashville
• Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis
• Immigrants clandestins
• Illegal aliens
• Emigration and immigration > Government policy
• Noncitizens > Government policy
• Immigration enforcement
• Latin Americans
• Abschiebung
• Einwanderung
• Grenzschutz
• Polizei
• Noncitizens
• Nashville (Tenn.) > Government policy
• United States > Government policy
• Tennessee > Nashville
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Who polices immigration? -- Setting up the local deportation regime -- Being proactive : on the streets in southeast Nashville -- Seeing and not seeing immigration : immigrant outreach in an era of proactive policing -- Inside the jail : processing immigrants for removal -- Punishing illegality -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0520296303
• 9780520296305
• 9780520968868 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017009460
• 40027502488

OCLC

978712835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library