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Captivity
Beyond Prisons
Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants
Martha D. Escobar
“Escobar offers a compelling argument about how the United States sustains a regime of exclusion of people of color by systematically criminalizing African Americans and Latin American migrants. I will
use this book not only in my own research but also for my classes.”–Roberta Villalón, St. John’s University, and author of Violence Against Latina Immigrants
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.
Martha D. Escobar is an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge.
University of Texas Press | March 2016 | 261pp | 9781477309018 | Paperback | £23.99*
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