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The accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts : war, fear, and the roots of dysfunction / / Alison Elizabeth Peck
| The accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts : war, fear, and the roots of dysfunction / / Alison Elizabeth Peck |
| Autore | Peck Alison Elizabeth <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 342.730820269 |
| Soggetto topico |
Emigration and immigration - Political aspects
Emigration and immigration law - United States - History Immigration courts - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
America
Department of Justice FBI Great Depression Nazi propaganda Trump administration WWII asylum attorney general case proceedings executive branch fatal consequences fear fifth column history human tragedy immigration courts independent system injustice law enforcement agency laws legal analysis neutral political power spies war on terror war |
| ISBN | 0-520-38118-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I. crisis in the immigration courts -- 1. The Attorney General's Immigration Courts -- 2. Whittling Away at Asylum Law -- 3. Policing the Immigration Courts -- Part II. from world war ii to 9/11: the ghost of the fifth column -- 4. A New Type of Tough in the Department of Labor -- 5. Refusal -- 6. Invasion -- 7. The Welles Mission -- 8. Alien Enemies -- 9. Reckoning -- 10. Un Día de Fuego -- 11. President Bush's Department -- Part III. the future of the immigration courts -- 12. Checks and Imbalances -- 13. Reforming the Immigration Courts -- Epilogue: Portrait of an American in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554275303321 |
Peck Alison Elizabeth <1970->
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| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2021] | ||
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When bodies remember [[electronic resource] ] : experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa / / Didier Fassin ; translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro
| When bodies remember [[electronic resource] ] : experiences and politics of AIDS in South Africa / / Didier Fassin ; translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro |
| Autore | Fassin Didier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.196/979200968 |
| Collana | California series in public anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - South Africa
AIDS (Disease) - Political aspects - South Africa AIDS (Disease) - Government policy - South Africa |
| Soggetto non controllato |
aids epidemic
aids anc government anthropology apartheid colonial period colonialism demographic studies dissidents epidemiology ethnography genocide global aids crisis global controversy government and governing health hiv human tragedy johannesburg medical anthropology medical research medical mother to child transmission political politics president thabo mbeki questionable medical research race theory racial inequality social history south africa south african history viral theory |
| ISBN |
1-281-75254-1
0-520-94045-8 9786611752545 1-4294-6795-9 0-520-90404-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern -- 1. As If Nothing Ever Happened -- 2. An Epidemic of Disputes -- 3. Anatomy of the Controversies -- 4. The Imprint of the Past -- 5. The Embodiment of the World -- 6. Living with Death -- Conclusion: This World We Live In -- Notes -- Brief Chronology of South African History -- Maps -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784419903321 |
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Fassin Didier
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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