Adam Goodman teaches in the Department of History and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. Twitter @adamsigoodman
"Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History"
"Winner of the Henry Adams Book Prize, Society for History in the
Federal Government"
"Winner of the PROSE Award in North American History, Association
of American Publishers"
"Honorable Mention for the Theodore Saloutos Book Award,
Immigration and Ethnic History Society"
"Finalist for the Shapiro Book Prize, The Shapiro Center for
American History and Culture at The Huntington"
"In his superbly researched and briskly narrated The Deportation
Machine, Adam Goodman, an assistant professor of history and Latin
American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, comprehensively recasts the way we think about expulsions
from the US and their effects."---Julia Preston, New York Review of
Books
"Could not be timelier. The Deportation Machine provides new,
crucial insights into the history of migrant expulsion and the
origins of today's crises."---Hilary Goodfriend, NACLA Report on
the Americas
"The Deportation Machine is the first book to measure accurately
the magnitude of exclusion and removal in modern American history.
With painstaking archival work, Goodman tracks the true, and truly
devastating, extent of removal policies. He makes an essential
contribution."---Allison Brownell Tirres, Public Books
"Adam Goodman, a professor at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, examines how immigration policies and practices have been
shaped as much by those who interpret, administer, execute and
enforce the laws as by those who write them. . . . Although these
measures may appear extreme, distasteful and even un-American, they
are, Goodman reminds us, a continuation rather than a deviation
from past practices."---David Nasaw, New York Times Book Review
"[A] superb history. . . . The Deportation Machine unearths
policies and practices that have received scant attention and
contributes immeasurably to our understanding of the dark side of
immigration policy."---Susan Hartmann, H-Net Reviews
"Deportation policy in the United States is nonsensical because it
is determined by two opposing impulses: racist hate and greed. We
want immigrants because they do cheap work we won’t do ourselves,
but we don’t want them because they represent, in the eyes of some
Americans, a threat to our way of life. . . . Goodman is sharp on
this contradiction. He demonstrates that the federal government’s
immigration policy emerges from a desire both to control the
borders and to cater to employers, who want to maintain a
‘well-regulated, exploitable migrant labor force."---Rachel Nolan,
Harper's Magazine
"Exacting study of the historical roots of U.S. deportation
policies. . . . [Goodman] confidently handles arcane historical
details and a volatile subject. A well-researched historical
discussion with clear current relevance."
*Kirkus Reviews*
"Adam Goodman’s The Deportation Machine offers an expansive,
readable, and thought-provoking rethinking of the history of
deportation in the United States. . . . [A] sweeping, engaging
overview of U.S. deportation that will encourage scholars of
immigration and the state to think differently about practices of
exclusion today."---Abigail Andrews, American Journal of
Sociology
"Indeed, there is now a burgeoning critical deportation literature
in law, history, and the social sciences. In The Deportation
Machine, Adam Goodman offers a powerful, well-written, thoughtful
addition to this emerging body of work."---Daniel Kanstroom,
Western Historical Quarterly
"For sociologists and political scientists studying deportation,
the book provides a clear and expansive narrative about the ways in
which formal deportation, voluntary departure and self-deportation
feed into each other and have profoundly shaped the way
non-citizens are deported from the United States from the late 19th
century to present day."---Laura Cleton, International
Migration
"Goodman’s analysis of the human costs of the business of
deportation represents another critical contribution to our
understanding of expulsion and of the role that profits play in
keeping the deportation machine functioning. . . . [An] engaging
and beautifully written book."---Maddalena Marinari, California
History
"A fine and comprehensive history of deportations from the United
States."---Raymond L. Cohn, EH.net
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
