{"product_id":"9780745349466-immigration-detention-inc","title":"Immigration Detention Inc.","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Big Business of Locking up Migrants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo experts in the field shine a critical light on the political economic practices of US immigration detention\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power, as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning exposé of the ways immigration detention generates income while those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operation. Drawing on over a decade of research and focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComing at a pivotal social and political moment, \u003cem\u003eImmigration Detention Inc.\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55736678154614,"sku":"9780745349466","price":15.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34749661_f22f9c6d-8616-4f20-a5b1-c23d6ddf4f54.jpg?v=1749692800","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780745349466-immigration-detention-inc","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}