{"product_id":"how-to-close-a-camp","title":"How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In \u003cem\u003eHow to Close a Camp\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting back against camps—and winning. Washington distills strategies and lessons from successful campaigns to close camps and block or slow the opening of new ones, drawing on conversations with veteran organizers from the movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChipping away at the infrastructure of the camp is the only way to stave off increasing xenophobic and authoritarian violence. It is time to close all the camps and build a world that no longer requires them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A moral manual, a rigorously researched guide to help readers fight back against this spreading evil.” Greg Grandin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An urgent, courageous book…. Please read it, both to witness the vital stories that Washington captures with grace and rigor, and to study the moral blueprint it presents to us all.” Sarah Stillman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Washington\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist covering the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Intercept\u003c\/i\u003e, and other outlets. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Case for Open Borders \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e. Washington is also a translator of books by Anabel Hernandez, Sandra Rodriquez Nieto, and others. His most recent translations include \u003ci\u003eThe Hollywood Kid\u003c\/i\u003e by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and \u003ci\u003eBlood Barrios\u003c\/i\u003e by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Both were co-translated along with Daniela Ugaz. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: History: From the 19th Century to the Rise of Mass Incarceration\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Lessons from Practitioners\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: ICE Power-Mapping\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: A Prison Town Says No – Lessons from Leavenworth\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: But How to Close a Camp — and then What? — and a List of Questions to Ask of Camps\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: LA and Chicago Push Back\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: What It Takes for a Camp to Exist: Adelanto as Example\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHow to Close a Camp\u003c\/em\u003e is critical reading for anyone trying to understand one of the defining cruelties of our time: the mass immigration detention centers that have sprung up across the country. Washington writes with clarity and urgency. His book is a moral manual, a rigorously researched guide to help readers fight back against this spreading evil.” Greg Grandin, author of \u003cem\u003eAmerica, América: A New History of the New World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an urgent, courageous book. It is not just a comprehensive history of immigration detention camps as sites of social control and repression; it is also a compelling catalog of the many creative ways in which people have refused to be contained. Please read it, both to witness the vital stories that Washington captures with grace and rigor and to study the moral blueprint it presents to us all, to help us account for and shape the kind of world in which we hope to live. What could be more needed than that?” Sarah Stillman, staff writer at \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHow to Close a Camp\u003c\/em\u003e showcases Washington’s rich talent for weaving together the deep veins of anti-immigrant policy in the United States with a cogent analysis of the system and powerful, instructive stories of resistance. As immigrant detention becomes a testing ground for authoritarian rule, this book is a crucial resource for seasoned activists and those new to the issue alike.” Silky Shah, author of \u003cem\u003eUnbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“John Washington has written an important and timely book: a thorough reckoning of ICE through a deep historical analysis of this long-standing yet somewhat-unknown machine of terror, most starkly symbolized by its incarceration camps. Just as important, this book also vividly reports on the spirit of sustained and creative resistance that is needed to bring these camps down. A must-read.” Todd Miller, author of \u003cem\u003eBuild Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Immigration prisons are a profitable spectacle of violence. Through a careful blend of on-the-ground reporting and thoughtful analysis, journalist John Washington traces the roots of policymakers’ choice to lock up migrants and brings to life the need—and possibility—of ending this type of human bondage.” César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, author of \u003cem\u003eWelcome the Wretched: In Defense of the “Criminal Alien”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e“John Washington has written a timely, passionate call to action against mass detention and mass deportation. 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