Audiobook9 hours
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Written by Adam Goodman
Narrated by Robert Fass
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
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. This provocative, eye-opening book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time.
In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. He reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns. Goodman uncovers the machine's three primary mechanisms-formal deportations, "voluntary" departures, and self-deportations-and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion.
In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. He reveals how authorities have singled out Mexicans, nine out of ten of all deportees, and removed most of them not by orders of immigration judges but through coercive administrative procedures and calculated fear campaigns. Goodman uncovers the machine's three primary mechanisms-formal deportations, "voluntary" departures, and self-deportations-and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion.
Related to The Deportation Machine
Related audiobooks
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Fascism: 12 Lessons from American History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Separated: Inside an American Tragedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empire of Borders: How the US is Exporting its Border Around the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Place on the Corner: Jan Haldipur Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
History For You
77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of Art Without Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Five Rings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Heretic's Handbook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Palestine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Endurance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Course of Human Events Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Deportation Machine
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
4 ratings0 reviews