From the Bookshelves: Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile by David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios
The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Following thousands of Dominican deportees over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios capture the experience of emigration, imprisonment, banishment, and repatriation on this vulnerable population. Filled with riveting life stories and uncommon ethnographic research, Banished to the Homeland relates the modern deportee’s journey to broader theoretical studies of transnationalism, assimilation, and social control, exposing the dangerous new reality created by today’s draconian immigration policies.
KJ
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