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Review: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity , by Jessica Ordaz

2023; University of California Press; Volume: 92; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.647

ISSN

1533-8584

Autores

Jimmy Patiño,

Tópico(s)

Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Resumo

Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, by Jessica Ordaz The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity. By Jessica Ordaz. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 196 pp.) Jimmy Patiño Jimmy Patiño University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 647–649. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.647 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jimmy Patiño; Review: The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, by Jessica Ordaz. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 647–649. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.647 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Historian Jessica Ordaz writes a compelling history grounded in the El Centro Detention Center in the Imperial Valley border region of California. Here, she crafts an intervention that identifies the “hauntings” of detainment and anti-migrant violence as endemic to immigration policies well before the neoliberal age. Through archival and oral history evidence, Ordaz reveals how detention was always based in criminalizing assumptions about detainees and was more than a space of transition between apprehension and court hearing, but much rather a site of punitive incarceration and labor exploitation. Ordaz articulates these assessments in a concise book of seven chapters and a preface, introduction, and conclusion. She structures the book in three parts, “Hauntings,” “Ghosts,” and “Liminal Punishments” to reveal the ways the history of the detention center revives experiences of and resistance to state violence. Part I discusses the roots of the detention center in El Centro during World World... You do not currently have access to this content.

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