Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control

Bibliographic Data

ID20028072
AuthorsT K Wong (0000-0003-0419-0131, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages236
Publication date2015-05-06
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueRights, deportation, and detention in the age of immigration control (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804793063.001.0001
OpenAlexW2345382640
Open LibraryOL26958241M
ISBN9780804793063
LanguageEN
Citations received27

Immigration is among the most prominent, enduring, and contentious features of our globalized world. Yet, there is little systematic, cross-national research on why countries what they when it comes to their immigration policies. Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control addresses this gap by examining what are arguably the most contested and dynamic immigration policies-immigration control-across 25 immigrant-receiving countries, including the U.S. and most of the European Union. The book addresses head on three of the most salient aspects of immigration control: the denial of rights to non-citizens, their physical removal and exclusion from the polity through deportation, and their deprivation of liberty and freedom of movement in immigration detention.In addition to answering the question of why states do what they do, the book describes contemporary trends in what Tom K. Wong refers to as the machinery of immigration control, analyzes the determinants of these trends using a combination of quantitative analysis and fieldwork, and explores whether efforts to deter unwanted immigration are actually working

Criminology · Deportation · Immigration · Immigration detention · Political science · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Alien detention centers · Civil rights · emigration and immigration · Emigration and immigration law · Government policy · Immigrants · Noncitizen detention centers