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  • Forced Out

    Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope

    Features the stories of undocumented mothers who reunite with their children in the US years after fleeing violence at homeFacing escalating chaos and violence in their home countries, many Central American mothers have found that a desperate flight to the north was their only choice. Many left their children behind in order to spare them the hardships of the journey. If they made it across the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Judging Mohammed

    Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice

    In October 2005, three weeks of rioting erupted in France following the accidental deaths of two French boys of North African ancestry. Killed while fleeing the police, these boys were deemed dangerous based largely on their immigrant origins. In France, disadvantaged children of immigrant and foreign ancestry represent the vast majority of formal suspects and have increasingly been portrayed as a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Whose Child Am I?

    Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody

    In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican children who are driven from their homes by violence and deprivation, and who embark alone, risking their ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Illegal Encounters

    The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People

    The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youthIn the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Unaccompanied Migrant Children

    Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives

    Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at the center.This volume gathers international experts from the fields of social work, social science, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Places We Share

    Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility

    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    While some people study globalization, others live their lives as global experiments. This book brings together people who do both. The authors or subjects of these studies are of diverse national, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is a connection to Morocco. It is from this shared space that they draw on personal stories, fieldwork, and literary and linguistic analysis ... Read more

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    The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

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    $10.99 CAD

  • Enforcing Order

    An Ethnography of Urban Policing

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Basic Concepts in Criminology

    Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel (Police, Corrections and Security Officers)

    Basic Concepts in Criminology is an introduction to criminology. It is intended to serve as resource material for prospective students of criminology and particularly for law enforcement officers in training and in the field. Criminology as a social science discipline is structured from a combination of concepts of sociology, psychology, and lawall relevant subjects to the law enforcement ... Read more

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  • Tell Me How It Ends

    An Essay in 40 Questions

    American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented Latin ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Narconomics

    How to Run a Drug Cartel

    Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a “a lively and engaging book, informed by both dogged reporting and gleanings from academic research” (The Washington Post)How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD