"Discussions on U.S. border enforcement have traditionally focused on the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary, inadvertently obscuring U.S.-Caribbean relations and the concerning asylum and detention policies unfolding there. Boats, Borders, and Bases offers the missing, racialized histories of the U.S. detention system and its relationship to the interception and detention of Haitian and Cuban migrants. It argues that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations actually established the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration and detention, and border-deterrent practices in the United States. This book promises to make a significant contribution to a truer understanding of the history and geography of the U.S. detention system overall."--Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Boats, Borders, and Bases
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART ONE. RACE AND THE COLD WAR GEOPOLITICS OF MIGRATION CONTROL
  • 1. “America’s ‘Boat People’” Cold War Geopolitics of Refuge
  • 2. Militarizing Migration The Politics of Asylum and Deterrence
• PART TWO. BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM
  • 3. “Not a Prison” Building a Deportation Hub in Oakdale, Louisiana
  • 4. “Uncle Sam Has a Long Arm” War and the Making of Deterrent Landscapes
• PART THREE. EXPANDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST DETENTION SYSTEM
  • 5. Safe Haven The Creation of an Offshore Detention Archipelago
  • 6. Onshore Expansion Consolidating Deterrence through Criminalization and Expulsion
  • 7. Post-9/11 Policing Back to the Future
  • Coda
• Notes
• References
• Index