Social death [electronic resource] : racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected / Lisa Marie Cacho.
Material type: TextSeries: Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American historyPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012Description: xi, 224 pSubject(s): Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States | Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States | Noncitizens -- United States | Marginality, Social -- United States | Criminal liability -- United States | Racism -- United States | Illegality -- Social aspects -- United States | Illegal immigrationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.173 LOC classification: JV6456 | .C33 2012Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the violence of value -- White entitlement and other people's crimes -- Beyond ethical obligation -- Grafting terror onto illegality -- Immigrant rights as civil rights -- Conclusion: wreck in the road: racialized hauntings of the devalued dead.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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