| Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration Contributor(s): Fernandes, Deepa (Author), Zinn, Howard (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1583227288 ISBN-13: 9781583227282 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: Every year the American Dream inspires hundreds of thousands of people to risk their savings-and their lives-to enter the United States in search of a better life. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare-a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them. In "Targeted," journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis, and first-person narratives of those caught in the grips of the increasingly Kafkaesque US Homeland Security system: immigrants, non-citizens and undocumented workers. Deepa-herself an immigrant well-acquainted with US immigration procedures-takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience, a journey marked by militarized border zones, racist profiling, criminalization, and detention. Fernandes argues that since 9/11 the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that simultaneously constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for a growing "Immigration Industrial Complex." She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that have successfully infiltrated and influenced the writing of the country's immigration legislation. Deepa Fernandes is a radio journalist for Pacifica Radio whose award-winning work has aired on the BBC World Service, and National Public Radio. Her writing has appeared in the "Village Voice," "In These Times" and the "New York Amsterdam News," "Targeted," her first book, is the result of four years of research collecting narratives from immigrants as well as human rights groups and lawyers who are challengingthe Bush administrations policies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | United States - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 325.73 |
| LCCN: 2006019078 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.12" W x 8.9" (0.89 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare--a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them. In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes seamlessly weaves together history, political analysis, and first-person narratives of those caught in the grips of the increasingly Kafkaesque U.S. Homeland Security system. She documents how in post-9/11 America immigrants have come to be deemed a national security threat. Fernandes--herself an immigrant well-acquainted with U.S. immigration procedures--takes the reader on a harrowing journey inside the new American immigrant experience, a journey marked by militarized border zones, racist profiling, criminalization, detention and deportation. She argues that since 9/11, the Bush administration has been carrying out a series of systematic changes to decades-old immigration policy that constitute a roll back of immigrant rights and a boon for businesses who are helping to enforce the crackdown on immigrants, creating a growing Immigration Industrial Complex. She also documents the bullet-to-ballot strategy of white supremacist elements that influence our new immigration legislation. |