{"product_id":"immigration-detention-inc-the-big-business-of-locking-up-migrants-in-america-nancy-hiemstra-paperback","title":"Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants in America -- Nancy Hiemstra, Paperback","description":"The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning expos? of the ways immigration detention generates income. At the same time, those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operations. Drawing on over a decade of research focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Coming at a pivotal social and political moment, Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745349466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nancy Hiemstra is a political geographer whose research focuses on US immigration enforcement policies. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDetain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, US. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Deirdre Conlon is a critical geographer working in the US and Britain. Her work focuses on how immigration and border controls are proliferating as they are monetized. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eIntimate Economies of Immigration Detention \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCarceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention.\u003c\/i\u003e She is Associate Professor based at the University of Leeds. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nancy Hiemstra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49790866718948,"sku":"9780745349466","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780745349466.jpg?v=1788595256","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/immigration-detention-inc-the-big-business-of-locking-up-migrants-in-america-nancy-hiemstra-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}