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Insane Aliens: The Incarceration of Mentally Ill Immigrants in the United States and Mexico, 1880s-1940
How were aliens constructed as mentally ill and incarcerated by doctors and immigration authorities in the US and Mexico in the early twentieth century?
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In the United States, federal detention of immigrants began in the early 1880s to enforce the government’s first national immigration laws against Chinese laborers and people with contagious diseases and mental illnesses. Today, almost half a million aliens are detained each year in the United States, making up the fastest growing part of the prison population.
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