...Prologue<subtitle>Detention Is Eugenics</subtitle> The prologue briefly examines the relatively new practice of detaining migrants in for-profit detention centers in the United States through the lens of eugenics. Although attention to the sterilization of migrants has made it to mainstream...

... Free Them All migrant detention abolition ...

... The epilogue briefly describes the formation of the group Free Them All San Diego, formed in 2020 to support the release of detained migrants at high risk of contracting COVID-19. The group gathered testimony from many people impacted by the practice of migrant detention, including many stories...

... This essay examines the devolution of immigrant detention and deportation efforts domestically and internationally. It addresses the outsourcing of detention operations to surrogate jailers and the use of strategic global locations to detain migrants and would-be migrants. These efforts...

... of strategic global locations to detain migrants and would-be migrants. These efforts are historical processes with deep roots in domestic detention history and reflect the U.S. government’s growing reliance on more remote and flexible, nonfederal resources to accomplish national enforcement goals, often...

... New York City–based Families for Freedom publicly supports immigrants with criminal convictions, predominantly men, to free them from detention and stop their mandatory deportation. Deportees and their loved ones lead the organization. Using storytelling (testimonios) as a core organizing tool...

... insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations—enclose, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants (those who migrated at a young age). youth citizenship biopolitics confinement This chapter offers up the conceptual...