Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California

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Research Article| January 01 2019 Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz Jessica Ordaz is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ordaz obtained her PhD in US History, with a minor field in Latin American History, from the University of California Davis. Her research interests include Latina/o history, border studies, migration, and the carceral system. During the 2017–2018 academic year, Ordaz was the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow, which focused on racial capitalism, at the University of Washington. She is currently working on a book manuscript, The Roots of Immigration Detention: Forced Labor, Transnational Migrant Politics and Punishment in California’s Imperial Valley, 1939–2014, which historicizes the El Centro Immigration Detention Center, a facility in California’s Imperial Valley, to explore the roots of immigration detention in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2019) 38 (2): 65–93. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.2.0065 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jessica Ordaz; Protesting Conditions Inside El Corralón: Immigration Detention, State Repression, and Transnational Migrant Politics in El Centro, California. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2019; 38 (2): 65–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.38.2.0065 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.