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Elizabeth Detention Center
A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States
Ulla 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)
9781978845831
Paperback / softback, published 14 July 2026
290 pages, 6 color and 35 B-W images
23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg
"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 Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network "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 The Unending Floods: Disaster Recovery and Immigration Policy
The 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. Through 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.
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Foreword Nina Bernstein Introduction Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998 Chapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention Must be Abolished Amy Gottlieb Chapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months Elizabeth Llorente Chapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States Penny Venetis Chapter 4: Riot! Fauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir) Chapter 5: "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope." Will Coley PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security State Chapter 6: How a Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern Deportation Regime Sarah Tosh Chapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States Abdulai Bah Chapter 8: "It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets released today..." Marguerite É. Marty, Esq. Chapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power of Accompaniment William Westerman Chapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained at EDC 'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe) PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment Chapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale Chapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum Edafe Okporo Chapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic Kristyn Scorsone Chapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court Pina N. Cirillo Chapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There Kathy O'Leary PART IV: Economies of Detention Chapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a Private-Detention-Only State Katherine M. Sastre Chapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the Elizabeth Detention Center Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra Chapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My Experience with Libre by Nexus Julio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg) Chapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and Beyond K. Sebastian León Chapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between Honduras and the EDC Xiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg) PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey? Chapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub Chapter 22: "Daddy, this China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the COVID-19 Ibrahim (with Ulla D. Berg) Chapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All Jessica Rofé Chapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025 Ivo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio) Chapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and Sustaining National Momentum Gabriela Viera Afterword Silky Shah Notes on Contributors Index