States of Detention: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Migration Crises to the United States

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dc.contributor.advisorTichenor, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorellis, dustin
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T21:11:48Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T21:11:48Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-09
dc.description.abstractWhat is a migration crisis? To answer this seemingly simple question, this study juxtaposes two migration crises that have profoundly shaped the character of American political institutions and the imaginations of liberal democratic politics. Migration, crisis or not, will be the primary issue driving major policy and state-market innovations for the next century, and may pose the ultimate test for liberal democracies facing new challenges in a rapidly changing world. Proffering a diagnosis of our contemporary immigration and border politics for the purposes of thinking more holistically about the past, present, and future, this study maps out the origins of crises from colonialism to the 21st century through a comparative historical analysis that uses eclectic data collected from archives both physical and digital. The results are clear, we cannot ignore the deeply interconnected histories and geographies of the United States, Cuba, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras if we are to understand the origins of migration crises and their implications in reproducing a future wrought with familiar paradoxical tensions between America as an idea, and America as a place.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29095
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectborders and immigration policyen_US
dc.subjectcomparative historical analysisen_US
dc.subjectdetentionen_US
dc.subjectimmigration historyen_US
dc.subjectmigration crisisen_US
dc.subjectpragmatismen_US
dc.titleStates of Detention: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Migration Crises to the United States
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Political Science
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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