Books in Brief
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States
Author: Ana Raquel Minian
“In 2018, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump’s ‘family separation’ policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this was only the latest chapter in a saga tracing back to the 1800s—one in which immigrants to the United States have been held without recourse to their constitutional rights. Braiding together the vivid stories of four migrants seeking to escape the turmoil of their homelands for the promise of America, In the Shadow of Liberty gives this history a human face, telling the dramatic story of a Central American asylum seeker, a Cuban exile, a European war bride, and a Chinese refugee.”
Minian is an associate professor in the Department of History.
