| ID | 127057 |
| Title Proper | Private detention and the immigration industrial complex |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Doty, Roxanne Lynne ; Wheatley, Elizabeth Shannon |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This study draws upon the insights of Michel Foucault to examine the contemporary immigration industrial complex in the United States. We focus on the involvement of private prison corporations in this complex, as well as the factors that have been essential to its creation and that perpetuate its continuance. We argue that four key aspects of the system (the legal apparatus, worldviews/ideas, private corporations, and webs of influence) converge to create an immigration industrial complex and that this complex functions as an economy of power that works to manage the existing system and discourages fundamental reform. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Political Sociology Vol.7, No.4; December 2013: p.426-443 |
| Journal Source | International Political Sociology Vol.7, No.4; December 2013: p.426-443 |
| Key Words | Corrections Corporation of America - CCA ; United States ; Economic Reforms ; Economics ; International Economics ; Contemporary Immigration ; Economic Power ; Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE ; Contract Detention Facilities - CDF ; Immigration Industrial Complex - IIC ; Broader Phenomenon ; Security Privatization ; Sovereign Power ; Conflicts ; Fundamental Reform ; Economic Cooperation |