{"product_id":"elizabeth-detention-center-a-social-history-of-immigration-detention-in-new-jersey-and-the-united-states-hardback-9781978845848","title":"Elizabeth Detention Center; A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States (Hardback) 9781978845848","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eElizabeth Detention Center\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eUlla D. Berg (Edited by), Carolina Sánchez Boe (Edited by), Nina Bernstein (Foreword by), Amy Gottlieb (Contributions by), Elizabeth Llorente (Contributions by), Penny Venetis (Contributions by), Fauziya Kassindja (Contributions by), Layli Miller Bashir (Contributions by), Will Coley (Contributions by), Carolina Sanchez Boe (Edited by), Sarah Tosh (Contributions by), Abdulai Bah (Contributions by), Marguerite É Marty (Contributions by), William Westerman (Contributions by), Carolina Sánchez Boe (Contributions by), Seth Kaper-Dale (Contributions by), Edafe Okporo (Contributions by), Kristyn Scorsone (Contributions by), Pina N. Cirillo (Contributions by), Kathy O'Leary (Contributions by), Katherine M. Sastre (Contributions by), Deirdre Conlon (Contributions by), Nancy Hiemstra (Contributions by), Julio Oseguera (Contributions by), Ulla D. Berg (Contributions by), K. Sebastian León (Contributions by), Xiomara Flores (Contributions by), Mary Rizzo (Contributions by), Whitney Strub (Contributions by), Carolina Sanchez Boe (Contributions by), Jessica Rofé (Contributions by), Gloria d'Alessio (Contributions by), Gabriela Viera (Contributions by), Silky Shah (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978845848\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 July 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 6 color and 35 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The range of authorial voices, which offer multiple different understandings of detention from legal, social, economic, and first-person perspectives, create a robust and informative scholarship. Through two dozen brief chapters written by journalists, academics, lawyers, activists, and former detainees, this book offers readers remarkable insights into the U.S. detention system today.\" - Ruth Gomberg, author of \u003cem\u003eLabor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Where immigration scholarship often focuses on legal frameworks and systems, this collection of essays and reflections reminds us of the people caught in the machinery and those working collectively to stop the system from running as intended. The intimate focus brings us into the New Jersey immigrant rights ecosystem, and we feel in community with lawyers, faith leaders, teachers, visitors, students, and immigrants. There is so much to learn from them.\" - Elissa C. Steglich, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Unending Floods: Disaster Recovery and Immigration Policy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought to EDC directly from Newark Airport or have been transferred to the site from elsewhere in the United States, including from the US-Mexico border region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a longitudinal, site-specific study unique in its kind, this volume unites the voices and perspectives of formerly detained migrants, scholars, journalists, lawyers, and social and faith movement leaders, who share their experiences of Elizabeth Detention Center and reconstruct its social history and its location in New Jersey's political economy and in the changing legal landscapes of immigration detention in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNina Bernstein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUlla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention Must be Abolished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmy Gottlieb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Llorente\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenny Venetis \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Riot! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: \"You're Giving Them Too Much Hope.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWill Coley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security State\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: How a Good Immigrant\/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern Deportation Regime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Tosh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbdulai Bah\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: \"It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets released today...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarguerite É. Marty, Esq.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power of Accompaniment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Westerman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained at EDC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRev. Seth Kaper-Dale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdafe Okporo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKristyn Scorsone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePina N. Cirillo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKathy O'Leary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            PART IV: Economies of Detention\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a Private-Detention-Only State\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatherine M. Sastre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the Elizabeth Detention Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My Experience with Libre by Nexus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJulio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eK. Sebastian León\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between Honduras and the EDC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Rizzo and Whitney Strub \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 22: \"Daddy, this China?\": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the COVID-19\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIbrahim (with Ulla D. Berg)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJessica Rofé\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and Sustaining National Momentum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGabriela Viera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfterword \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilky Shah\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640497893656,"sku":"9781978845848","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/elizabeth-detention-center-a-social-history-of-immigration-detention-in-new-jersey-and-the-united-states-hardback-9781978845848","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}