28 min
The Immigration Industrial Complex Immigrant Song
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In this episode we examine the question, "What is the immigration industrial complex?" We’ll learn how maintaining a flow of undocumented immigrants in and out of the United States means big money for many companies. We’ll also hear from Tanya Golash-Boza, author of the book, Deported: Policing Immigrants, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism.
If you like what you hear, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon. Your support will help make this a better project.
For more information visit patreon.com/immigrantsong.
You can also follow this project on Twitter or on Facebook. Just search for “immigrant song.”
Our opening music is “Mexico City Blues II” by Los Negretes. Our closing music is A Meditation on Flight by Alpen. With interstitial music by Podington Bear. All songs are featured via a Creative Commons license.
Thanks to Bob Maynard for the idea to profile an immigrant in each episode. The music from that segment for this episode was “Alexander's Ragtime Band” performed by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan in 1911.
Narrated and produced by Robert Stribley
Show Notes:
Original essay: What Is the “Immigration Industrial Complex”?
https://medium.com/immigration-in-america/what-is-the-immigration-industrial-complex-bdf5fd109771
Recommended Reading
* Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism by Tanya Golash-Boza, NYU Press, 2015
* Emphasizing the ‘Complex’ in the ‘Immigration Industrial Complex’ by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, April 2, 2013
* From Deportation to Prison by Patrisia Macías-Rojas, NYU Press, 2016
*How Private Prisons Are Profiting From Locking Up US Immigrants by Keegan Hamilton, VICE News, October 6, 2015
* How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System by Lee Fang, The Nation, February 27, 2013
* The Immigration Industrial Complex: Why We Enforce Immigration Policies Destined to Fail by Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology Compass, 2009
* Killing the American Dream: How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation by Pilar Marrero, St. Martin’s Press, 2012
* New face of the war on immigrants?: US immigration reform by William I. Robinson, Al Jazeera, July 10, 2013
* U.S. Grows An Industrial Complex Along The Border by Ted Robbins, NPR, September 12, 2012
In this episode we examine the question, "What is the immigration industrial complex?" We’ll learn how maintaining a flow of undocumented immigrants in and out of the United States means big money for many companies. We’ll also hear from Tanya Golash-Boza, author of the book, Deported: Policing Immigrants, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism.
If you like what you hear, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon. Your support will help make this a better project.
For more information visit patreon.com/immigrantsong.
You can also follow this project on Twitter or on Facebook. Just search for “immigrant song.”
Our opening music is “Mexico City Blues II” by Los Negretes. Our closing music is A Meditation on Flight by Alpen. With interstitial music by Podington Bear. All songs are featured via a Creative Commons license.
Thanks to Bob Maynard for the idea to profile an immigrant in each episode. The music from that segment for this episode was “Alexander's Ragtime Band” performed by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan in 1911.
Narrated and produced by Robert Stribley
Show Notes:
Original essay: What Is the “Immigration Industrial Complex”?
https://medium.com/immigration-in-america/what-is-the-immigration-industrial-complex-bdf5fd109771
Recommended Reading
* Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism by Tanya Golash-Boza, NYU Press, 2015
* Emphasizing the ‘Complex’ in the ‘Immigration Industrial Complex’ by Nicole Trujillo-Pagán, April 2, 2013
* From Deportation to Prison by Patrisia Macías-Rojas, NYU Press, 2016
*How Private Prisons Are Profiting From Locking Up US Immigrants by Keegan Hamilton, VICE News, October 6, 2015
* How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System by Lee Fang, The Nation, February 27, 2013
* The Immigration Industrial Complex: Why We Enforce Immigration Policies Destined to Fail by Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology Compass, 2009
* Killing the American Dream: How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation by Pilar Marrero, St. Martin’s Press, 2012
* New face of the war on immigrants?: US immigration reform by William I. Robinson, Al Jazeera, July 10, 2013
* U.S. Grows An Industrial Complex Along The Border by Ted Robbins, NPR, September 12, 2012
28 min