{"product_id":"from-welcome-to-deportation-demba-babaly-ndiath-9798988862468","title":"From Welcome To Deportation: A Story of West African Immigrants Who Crossed The U.S.-Mexico Border","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe United States presents itself as a nation built by immigrants - an idea repeated in political speeches, history books, and civic rituals. Immigration has indeed shaped the country's economy, culture, and institutions from its earliest days. Yet U.S. immigration policy has never followed a coherent moral or legal trajectory. Instead, it has oscillated between inclusion and exclusion, generosity and punishment, often reflecting political anxiety more than consistent principle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin this unstable system, one population remains persistently overlooked: West African migrants. Public debates on immigration in the United States overwhelmingly center on Latin American or Asian migration, rendering African migrants largely invisible despite their rapidly growing presence and distinct legal experiences. This absence is not merely symbolic. It has concrete consequences in policy design, asylum adjudication, detention practices, and public understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book centers West African migrants - particularly those from Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, and neighboring countries - not to isolate their experience, but to demonstrate how the U.S. immigration system functions when confronted with migrants who fall outside its dominant narratives. Their journeys, legal pathways, and outcomes reveal structural contradictions that are often obscured when immigration is discussed in the abstract.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this book is not only to tell stories, but to analyze systems. It asks how immigration law is applied in practice, how enforcement priorities shape outcomes, and how a legal framework that claims humanitarian values repeatedly produces instability, exclusion, and harm. Through a combination of policy analysis, legal interpretation, expert interviews, and first-hand community experience, this book examines how the promise of welcome is extended - and then withdrawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Demba Babaly Ndiath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798988862468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anacaona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Demba Babaly Ndiath","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48853000945919,"sku":"9798988862468","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-welcome-to-deportation-demba-babaly-ndiath-9798988862468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}