Boats, Borders, and Bases

Jenna M. Loyd is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alison Mountz is Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University.

"Although this book makes a much-needed contribution to critical geography, migration, race, criminology, and legal scholarship, it also nicely complements recent work-like From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, which seek to identify the rise of migrant detention throughout the US. This book takes that task one step further by theorizing spaces and processes of deterrence and detention beyond the interior of the US while making an even broader contribution to research on multijurisdictional patchworks."

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPART ONE. RACE AND THE COLD WAR GEOPOLITICSOF MIGRATION CONTROL1. “America’s ‘Boat People’”Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge2. Militarizing MigrationThe Politics of Asylum and DeterrencePART TWO. BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM3. “Not a Prison”Building a Deportation Hub in Oakdale, Louisiana4. “Uncle Sam Has a Long Arm”War and the Making of Deterrent LandscapesPART THREE. EXPANDING THE WORLD’S LARGESTDETENTION SYSTEM5. Safe HavenThe Creation of an Off shore Detention Archipelago6. Onshore ExpansionConsolidating Deterrence through Criminalizationand Expulsion7. Post-9/11 PolicingBack to the FutureCodaNotesReferencesIndex