Aftermath

Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora

Bibliographic Data

ID20028878
AuthorsDaniel Kanstroom (corresponding author), Dan Kanstroom
Year2012
Pages242
Publication date2012-07-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAftermath (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199742721.001.0001
OpenAlexW4256039070
Open LibraryOL25095077M
ISBN9780199742721
LanguageEN
Citations received80

The United States has undertaken a radical, unprecedented social experiment with massive immigration and deportation enforcement. Since the passage of harsh new deportation laws in 1996, the U.S. has deported tens of millions of noncitizens (“aliens”). Many are undocumented, but many others are long-term legal residents with U.S. families. Deportation has torn through many communities like a capricious tornado: touching down suddenly and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. It has had profound, though still-understudied, effects on individuals, families, and communities, both in the U.S. and in the countries to which deportees are sent. The Obama Administration has continued—and actually expanded—the deportation system. The U.S. has now created what may be termed, somewhat provocatively, a new American diaspora: a forcibly uprooted population of people with deep and cohesive connections to each other and to the nation-state from which they were removed. Once deportees have been expelled to places like Guatemala, Cambodia, Haiti, and El Salvador, many face severe isolation, alienation, persecution and, sometimes, death. Many may never be able to return. This book now considers the current U.S. system. It examines U.S. deportation as it works and as it might work more justly and fairly. Addressing various political, social, philosophical and legal issues, the author considers how deportation works within the ‘rule of law.’ Concluding that the U.S. deportation system remains an anachronistic, ad hoc, legally dubious affair, the book proposes a more human rights-oriented, humane and rational deportation system

Criminology · Deportation · Diaspora · Immigration · Immigration law · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Deportees · emigration and immigration · Emigration and immigration law · Rule of law · united states