Abstract
Boran is a Cambodian refugee who as a very young child came to the United States with his family in the 1970s, having fled the brutal Khmer Rouge. After serving a sentence for a crime he committed as a young man, he was not released but instead transferred directly into an Immigration and Naturalization Service (ins) detention center and slated for deportation to Cambodia.¹ Boran was one of the thousands of Cambodian refugees whose life courses were radically altered by recent changes in federal law. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (iirira) of 1996 in particular made significant
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Ethnographies of U.S. Empire |
| Editors | Carole McGranahan, John F Collins |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 411-430 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781478000099 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2018 |