Amada Armenta is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

"This stellar volume cements Armenta’s status as an expert ethnographer working at the intersection of the sociology of critical criminology, law and society, and immigration. Academics and non-academics, graduate and under-graduate students alike will find in this text a readable and eminently troubling portrait of immigrant life in the deportation nation, a story deftly told through the clear-eyed and empathetic vision of one of the field’s rising stars."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Who Polices Immigration?2. Setting Up the Local Deportation Regime3. Being Proactive: On the Streets in Southeast Nashville4. Seeing and Not Seeing Immigration: Immigrant Outreach in an Era of Proactive Policing5. Inside the Jail: Processing Immigrants for Removal6. Punishing IllegalityConclusionAppendix: Fieldwork FAQsNotesReferencesIndex

Amada Armenta is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

"This stellar volume cements Armenta’s status as an expert ethnographer working at the intersection of the sociology of critical criminology, law and society, and immigration. Academics and non-academics, graduate and under-graduate students alike will find in this text a readable and eminently troubling portrait of immigrant life in the deportation nation, a story deftly told through the clear-eyed and empathetic vision of one of the field’s rising stars."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Who Polices Immigration?2. Setting Up the Local Deportation Regime3. Being Proactive: On the Streets in Southeast Nashville4. Seeing and Not Seeing Immigration: Immigrant Outreach in an Era of Proactive Policing5. Inside the Jail: Processing Immigrants for Removal6. Punishing IllegalityConclusionAppendix: Fieldwork FAQsNotesReferencesIndex