Description:
Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been detained at the privately-run Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey, under inhumane conditions. This volume unites the perspectives of formerly detained migrants, scholars, journalists, lawyers, and advocates who situate local struggles within the wider landscape of immigration detention in the US.
Review Quotes:
"Where immigration scholarship often focuses on legal frameworks and systems, this collection of essays and reflections reminds us of the people caught in the machinery and those working collectively to stop the system from running as intended. The intimate focus brings us into the New Jersey immigrant rights ecosystem, and we feel in community with lawyers, faith leaders, teachers, visitors, students, and immigrants. There is so much to learn from them."
--Elissa C. Steglich "coauthor of The Unending Floods: Disaster Recovery and Immigration Policy"