Social death
Subtitle: racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected
By: Lisa Marie Cacho
Series: Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American history
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780814723753; 9780814723760; 9780814723777; 9780814725429
Subjects: Illegality; Civil rights; Immigrants; Racism; Minorities; Illegal aliens; Criminal liability; Social Marginality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the violence of value; title: White entitlement and other people's crimes; title: Beyond ethical obligation; title: Grafting terror onto illegality; title: Immigrant rights as civil rights; title: Conclusion: wreck in the road: racialized hauntings of the devalued dead.