Autore	Dow Mark
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiii, 413 pages)
Disciplina	365/.4
Soggetto topico	Immigrants - Government policy - United States Noncitizen detention centers - United States Human rights - United States Emigration and immigration law - United States
Soggetto non controllato	america american gulag american prisons detention centers federal officials human cruelty human rights violations human rights immigration and nationalization service immigration detention immigration history immigration laws immigration policies immigration prisons inhumane conditions ins facilities ins prisoners ins investigative journalism jailers prison system prisoners racial profiling racism repression september 11 us immigration policies
ISBN	0-520-93927-1 1-59734-461-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Invisibility, intimidation, and the INS -- September 11: secrecy, disruption, and continuity -- Another world, another nation: Miami's Krome Detention Center -- "Enforcement means you're brutal" -- The world's first private prison -- "Keeping quiet means deny" : a hunger strike in Queens -- The art of jailing -- "Criminal aliens" and criminal agents -- Siege, shackles, climate, design -- "Speak to every media" : resistance, repression, and the making of a prisoner -- Good and evil in New England -- Out West: philosophy and despair -- Dead time.
Altri titoli varianti	Inside U.S. immigration prisons
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780445403321

Autore	Best Joel
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (222 p.)
Disciplina	303.3/8
Soggetto topico	Sociology - Statistical methods Social problems - Statistical methods Social indicators
Soggetto non controllato	argumentation bullying college ratings crime critical thinking data duels data democracy divorce economics evidence fear health care history hospital errors informed opinion innumeracy journalism justice system legal system math mathematics media news nonfiction political economy political science politics popular culture psychology racial profiling reasoning research stats research rhetoric school shooting sciences social issues stat wars statistical measures statistics stats teen suicide
ISBN	0-520-93002-9 1-282-35713-1 9786612357138 1-4175-4075-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Missing numbers -- Confusing numbers -- Scary numbers -- Authoritative numbers -- Contentious numbers -- Toward statistical literacy?
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910782957103321

Autore	Briggs Charles L. <1953->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (457 p.)
Disciplina	614.5/14/0987
Altri autori (Persone)	Mantini-BriggsClara <1956->
Soggetto topico	Cholera - Venezuela - Epidemiology Cholera - Social aspects - Venezuela
Soggetto non controllato	1990s 20th century aids anthropologists bacterial infection cholera cultural anthropology cultural perspective diseases epidemics ethnographers ethnography health threats infectious diseases malaria medical community medical services orinoco delta physicians public health officials racial prejudices racial profiling retrospective social impact social inequality social stigma thought provoking tuberculosis venezuela victim blame
ISBN	1-59734-921-6 9786612358043 1-282-35804-9 1-4175-0814-0 0-520-93852-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death in the delta -- 1. preparing for a bacterial invasion: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela -- 2. Epidemic at the Door: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro -- 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa -- 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales -- 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions -- 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas -- 7. Exile and Internment: -- 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga -- 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics -- 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic -- 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910782918503321

Autore	Briggs Charles L. <1953->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (457 p.)
Disciplina	614.5/14/0987
Altri autori (Persone)	Mantini-BriggsClara <1956->
Soggetto topico	Cholera - Venezuela - Epidemiology Cholera - Social aspects - Venezuela
Soggetto non controllato	1990s 20th century aids anthropologists bacterial infection cholera cultural anthropology cultural perspective diseases epidemics ethnographers ethnography health threats infectious diseases malaria medical community medical services orinoco delta physicians public health officials racial prejudices racial profiling retrospective social impact social inequality social stigma thought provoking tuberculosis venezuela victim blame
ISBN	1-59734-921-6 9786612358043 1-282-35804-9 1-4175-0814-0 0-520-93852-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death in the delta -- 1. preparing for a bacterial invasion: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela -- 2. Epidemic at the Door: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro -- 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa -- 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales -- 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions -- 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas -- 7. Exile and Internment: -- 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga -- 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics -- 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic -- 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNISA-996247981703316