In the shadow of liberty the invisible history of immigrant detention in the United States

"A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family s...

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Main Author: Minian, Ana Raquel, 1983- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Viking, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Christian land
  • Lady Liberty greets European immigrants
  • Cubans are welcome
  • A safe haven
  • Entry fiction
  • Ellis Island was a prison
  • Out on bond
  • The Constitution does not apply
  • "An Enlightened Civilization"
  • Back to the dark
  • Family separation
  • Uprising
  • Guantánamo
  • Law and torture
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Dreams deferred
  • Epilogue: Freedom.