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Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora

July 05, 2012 (1 min read)

By Daniel Kanstroom, Oxford University Press: "Dan Kanstroom is among the most daring and inventive migration scholars writing today.  Many studies of immigration law and policy start with the foreign national's arrival in the United States and end with her forced departure.  But for nearly all individuals and families, life does not end with removal.  Aftermath carries the story forward, rounding out the picture to include previously-overlooked narratives of life for those removed, those left behind, and the enduring efforts of millions of households to preserve the ties that bind.  It is a fair-minded and accessible book that lays bare the gross failings of our current deportation machinery, but also, in illuminating experience in what Kanstroom terms "the new American diaspora," points to a way out of the terrible box we are now in."--Michael J. Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School 

[Hardcover purchase recommended, but also available in Kindle edition.]