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The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America)
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98/100Author:
Adam Goodman
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Date:
June 23, 2020
The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years.
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Histories take a long time to write, and much of Goodman’s extensive and exuberantly footnoted study predates the election of Donald Trump. It must have been strange to spend years researching deportation history in archives across the United States and Mexico—writing an academic book often feels like a private obsession—only to see it all burst into the open in 2015, when Trump began raving about Mexican rapists and promising to deport the millions of people living in this country without papers. What had previously been a question for historians like Goodman—and for the undocumented and their families, who are so rarely listened to—became a matter of public urgency. Are we, or were we ever, a 'nation of immigrants'?.
...describes a nation that has for more than a century discriminated against Mexican immigrants.
In his superbly researched and briskly narrated The Deportation Machine, Adam Goodman...comprehensively recasts the way we think about expulsions from the US and their effects.
Goodman’s writing can be dry, but he confidently handles arcane historical details and a volatile subject.
