Discussions about U.S. migration policing have traditionally focused
on enforcement along the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary.
Enforcement practices such as detention policies designed to restrict
access to asylum also transpire in the Caribbean. Boats, Borders,
and Bases tells a missing, racialized history of the U.S.
migration detention system that was developed and expanded to deter
Haitian and Cuban migrants. Jenna M. Loyd and Alison Mountz argue
that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations established
the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration
detention and border-deterrent practices in the United States. This
book will make a significant contribution to a fuller understanding
of the history and geography of the United States’s migration
detention system.
