How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiation with Guatemalan NGOs by Erin Beck (review)
The underlying logic that shaped the abuse of state power, and the advocacy for the rights of asylum seekers, continue to outline the contemporaryUS detention policy. Based on his careful reading of US sources, Lindskoog sets up his questions well and makes his points clearly and strongly. His research findings are most impressive regardingUS policy toward the Haitians in the 1980s. The writing style is handsome, and this book will be especially suitable for classroom discussion. It can be hoped that this book will provoke further debates over the global spread of the US immigration detention model after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as the contemporary movement against immigration detention and its inherited challenges.