Elizabeth Detention Center
A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States
Herausgeber: Berg, Ulla D; Boe, Carolina Sanchez; Boe, Carolina Sánchez
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Elizabeth Detention Center
A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States
Herausgeber: Berg, Ulla D; Boe, Carolina Sanchez; Boe, Carolina Sánchez
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The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought to EDC directly from Newark Airport or have been transferred to the site from elsewhere in the United States, including from the US-Mexico border region. Through a longitudinal, site-specific study…mehr
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The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought to EDC directly from Newark Airport or have been transferred to the site from elsewhere in the United States, including from the US-Mexico border region. Through a longitudinal, site-specific study unique in its kind, this volume unites the voices and perspectives of formerly detained migrants, scholars, journalists, lawyers, and social and faith movement leaders, who share their experiences of Elizabeth Detention Center and reconstruct its social history, its location in New Jersey's political economy, and in the changing legal landscapes of immigration detention in the USA.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Seitenzahl: 204
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2026
- Englisch
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781978845831
- ISBN-10: 1978845839
- Artikelnr.: 75660206
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Seitenzahl: 204
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2026
- Englisch
- Gewicht: 454g
- ISBN-13: 9781978845831
- ISBN-10: 1978845839
- Artikelnr.: 75660206
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Ulla D. Berg is an associate professor of anthropology and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. A socio-cultural and visual anthropologist by training, her research focuses on migration, (im)mobility, detention, and deportation in Latin America and among U.S. Latinx populations. She is the author of Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. (NYU Press, 2015). Carolina Sánchez Boe is an adjunct lecturer at Brown University in Paris. A sociologist and anthropologist, her research focuses on confinement, deportation, and illegalization in the USA and France, and she has worked in the non-profit sector for over a decade. She has directed the documentary Digital Detention (2025).
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Nina Bernstein
Introduction
Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe
PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998
Chapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention
Must be Abolished
Amy Gottlieb
Chapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months
Elizabeth Llorente
Chapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to
Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States
Penny Venetis
Chapter 4: Riot!
Fauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir)
Chapter 5: "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope."
Will Coley
PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security
State
Chapter 6: How a Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern
Deportation Regime
Sarah Tosh
Chapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States
Abdulai Bah
Chapter 8: "It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets
released today..."
Marguerite É. Marty, Esq.
Chapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power
of Accompaniment
William Westerman
Chapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained
at EDC
'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe)
PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment
Chapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of
Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale
Chapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum
Edafe Okporo
Chapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic
Kristyn Scorsone
Chapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court
Pina N. Cirillo
Chapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There
Kathy O'Leary
PART IV: Economies of Detention
Chapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a
Private-Detention-Only State
Katherine M. Sastre
Chapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the
Elizabeth Detention Center
Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra
Chapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My
Experience with Libre by Nexus
Julio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and
State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and
Beyond
K. Sebastian León
Chapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between
Honduras and the EDC
Xiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg)
PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?
Chapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey
Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub
Chapter 22: "Daddy, this China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the
COVID-19
Ibrahim (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All
Jessica Rofé
Chapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025
Ivo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio)
Chapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and
Sustaining National Momentum
Gabriela Viera
Afterword
Silky Shah
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Nina Bernstein
Introduction
Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe
PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998
Chapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention
Must be Abolished
Amy Gottlieb
Chapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months
Elizabeth Llorente
Chapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to
Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States
Penny Venetis
Chapter 4: Riot!
Fauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir)
Chapter 5: "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope."
Will Coley
PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security
State
Chapter 6: How a Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern
Deportation Regime
Sarah Tosh
Chapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States
Abdulai Bah
Chapter 8: "It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets
released today..."
Marguerite É. Marty, Esq.
Chapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power
of Accompaniment
William Westerman
Chapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained
at EDC
'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe)
PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment
Chapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of
Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale
Chapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum
Edafe Okporo
Chapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic
Kristyn Scorsone
Chapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court
Pina N. Cirillo
Chapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There
Kathy O'Leary
PART IV: Economies of Detention
Chapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a
Private-Detention-Only State
Katherine M. Sastre
Chapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the
Elizabeth Detention Center
Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra
Chapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My
Experience with Libre by Nexus
Julio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and
State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and
Beyond
K. Sebastian León
Chapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between
Honduras and the EDC
Xiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg)
PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?
Chapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey
Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub
Chapter 22: "Daddy, this China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the
COVID-19
Ibrahim (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All
Jessica Rofé
Chapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025
Ivo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio)
Chapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and
Sustaining National Momentum
Gabriela Viera
Afterword
Silky Shah
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Nina Bernstein
Introduction
Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe
PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998
Chapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention
Must be Abolished
Amy Gottlieb
Chapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months
Elizabeth Llorente
Chapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to
Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States
Penny Venetis
Chapter 4: Riot!
Fauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir)
Chapter 5: "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope."
Will Coley
PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security
State
Chapter 6: How a Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern
Deportation Regime
Sarah Tosh
Chapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States
Abdulai Bah
Chapter 8: "It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets
released today..."
Marguerite É. Marty, Esq.
Chapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power
of Accompaniment
William Westerman
Chapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained
at EDC
'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe)
PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment
Chapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of
Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale
Chapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum
Edafe Okporo
Chapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic
Kristyn Scorsone
Chapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court
Pina N. Cirillo
Chapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There
Kathy O'Leary
PART IV: Economies of Detention
Chapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a
Private-Detention-Only State
Katherine M. Sastre
Chapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the
Elizabeth Detention Center
Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra
Chapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My
Experience with Libre by Nexus
Julio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and
State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and
Beyond
K. Sebastian León
Chapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between
Honduras and the EDC
Xiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg)
PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?
Chapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey
Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub
Chapter 22: "Daddy, this China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the
COVID-19
Ibrahim (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All
Jessica Rofé
Chapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025
Ivo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio)
Chapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and
Sustaining National Momentum
Gabriela Viera
Afterword
Silky Shah
Notes on Contributors
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Nina Bernstein
Introduction
Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe
PART I: The Early Years: From Esmor to CCA, 1993-1998
Chapter 1: Abraham Zuma's Preventable Death, or Why Immigration Detention
Must be Abolished
Amy Gottlieb
Chapter 2: Shackled in the Land of Hope: Asylum Seekers Held for Months
Elizabeth Llorente
Chapter 3: The First Lawsuit Using International Human Rights Law to
Protect Detained Immigrants in the United States
Penny Venetis
Chapter 4: Riot!
Fauziya Kassindja (with Layli Miller Bashir)
Chapter 5: "You're Giving Them Too Much Hope."
Will Coley
PART II: Mandatory Detention, Crimmigration, and the National Security
State
Chapter 6: How a Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant Binary Fuels the Modern
Deportation Regime
Sarah Tosh
Chapter 7: A Journey to Freedom: My First Steps in the United States
Abdulai Bah
Chapter 8: "It's not like you're ever going to see this guy after he gets
released today..."
Marguerite É. Marty, Esq.
Chapter 9: We Are IRATE!: Seven People in a New Jersey Diner and the Power
of Accompaniment
William Westerman
Chapter 10: A New Jersey Teenager Caught in the War on Terror and Detained
at EDC
'Bilal' (with Carolina Sanchez Boe)
PART III: Structures of Support, Advocacy, and Accompaniment
Chapter 11: A Permanent Executive Order from God: The Reformed Church of
Highland Park's Ongoing Response to EDC's Systemic Sin
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale
Chapter 12: Bed 26: Becoming a Refugee and Claiming Asylum
Edafe Okporo
Chapter 13: Touring the Elizabeth Detention Center: A Diary Comic
Kristyn Scorsone
Chapter 14: Due Process Army at the Elizabeth Immigration Court
Pina N. Cirillo
Chapter 15: Know Where You Stand and Stand There
Kathy O'Leary
PART IV: Economies of Detention
Chapter 16: Anti-Detention Laws, the EDC, and How New Jersey Became a
Private-Detention-Only State
Katherine M. Sastre
Chapter 17: Big Business and Bad Care: The Sick Economics Behind the
Elizabeth Detention Center
Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra
Chapter 18: From EDC to e-Carceration and Digital Surveillance: My
Experience with Libre by Nexus
Julio Oseguera (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 19: Who Are the Criminals? The Licit and Illicit Monetary Flows and
State-Corporate Interests Fueling Migrant Detention in New Jersey and
Beyond
K. Sebastian León
Chapter 20: Do You Want to Come Back? A Transgender Woman's Story Between
Honduras and the EDC
Xiomara Flores (with Ulla D. Berg)
PART V: The End of Immigration Detention in New Jersey?
Chapter 21: Towards Abolition: Fighting Detention in Trump-Era New Jersey
Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub
Chapter 22: "Daddy, this China?": Ibrahim's Experience in EDC During the
COVID-19
Ibrahim (with Ulla D. Berg)
Chapter 23: Aganan v. Rodriguez and the Fight to #FreeThem All
Jessica Rofé
Chapter 24: Asylum Granted, Peace Denied: Fearing a New Era in January 2025
Ivo and Gabriel (with Gloria d'Alessio)
Chapter 25: The Detention Ban Ripple Effect: Defending Community Wins and
Sustaining National Momentum
Gabriela Viera
Afterword
Silky Shah
Notes on Contributors
Index







