Full Description
Discussions on U.S. border enforcement have traditionally focused on the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary, inadvertently obscuring U.S.-Caribbean relations and the concerning asylum and detention policies unfolding there. Boats, Borders, and Bases offers the missing, racialized histories of the U.S. detention system and its relationship to the interception and detention of Haitian and Cuban migrants. It argues that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations actually established the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration and detention and border deterrent practices in the U.S. This book promises to make a significant contribution to a truer understanding of the history and geography of the U.S. detention system overall.
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE. RACE AND THE COLD WAR GEOPOLITICS
OF MIGRATION CONTROL
1. "America's 'Boat People'"
Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge
2. Militarizing Migration
The Politics of Asylum and Deterrence
PART TWO. BUILDING THE WORLD'S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM
3. "Not a Prison"
Building a Deportation Hub in Oakdale, Louisiana
4. "Uncle Sam Has a Long Arm"
War and the Making of Deterrent Landscapes
PART THREE. EXPANDING THE WORLD'S LARGEST
DETENTION SYSTEM
5. Safe Haven
The Creation of an Off shore Detention Archipelago
6. Onshore Expansion
Consolidating Deterrence through Criminalization
and Expulsion
7. Post-9/11 Policing
Back to the Future
Coda
Notes
References
Index
