Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)Migrants

Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison...
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Author: Martha D. Escobar
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Language: English
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Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)Migrants by Escobar, Martha D.

Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)Migrants

$173.13

Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)Migrants

$173.13
Author: Martha D. Escobar
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants.

Starting in the 1990s, the United States saw tremendous expansion in the number of imprisoned (im)migrants, specifically Latinas/os. Consequently, there was also an increase in the number of deportations. In addition to regulating society, prisons also serve as a reproductive control strategy, both in preventing female inmates from having children and by separating them from their families. With an eye to racialized and gendered technologies of power, Escobar argues that incarcerated Latinas are especially depicted as socially irrecuperable because they are not considered useful within the neoliberal labor market. This perception impacts how they are criminalized, which is not limited to incarceration but also extends to and affects Latina (im)migrants' everyday lives. Escobar also explores the relationship between the immigrant rights movement and the prison abolition movement, scrutinizing a variety of social institutions working on solutions to social problems that lead to imprisonment.

Accessible to both academics and those in the justice and social service sectors, Escobar's book pushes readers to consider how, even in radical spaces, unequal power relations can be reproduced by the very entities that attempt to undo them.



Author: Martha D. Escobar
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/29/2016
Pages: 261
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781477309018


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2016

About the Author
MARTHA D. ESCOBARLos Angeles, CaliforniaEscobar is an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge.

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