From the Bookshelves: Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States. Edited by Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe

Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States Edited by Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe

Contributors: Nina Bernstein (Foreword), Silky Shah (Afterword), Amy Gottlieb, Elizabeth Llorente, Penny Venetis, Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Will Coley, Sarah Tosh, Abdulai Bah, Marguerite É Marty, William Westerman, Carolina Sánchez Boe, Seth Kaper-Dale, Edafe Okporo, Kristyn Scorsone, Pina N. Cirillo, Kathy O'Leary, Katherine M. Sastre, Deirdre Conlon, Nancy Hiemstra, Julio Oseguera, Ulla D. Berg, K. Sebastian León, Xiomara Flores, Mary Rizzo, Whitney Strub, Jessica Rofé, Gloria d'Alessio, and Gabriela Viera

Publisher's Description

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.