Common Language Project: Multimedia that Matters

Between Worlds/Behind Bars Immigration, Detention and Deportation in the Northwest

by Jessica Partnow, Alex Stonehill and Sarah Stuteville, with other media by Gladys Chiu and Eroyn FranklinFebruary 12, 2010

From the dark days of the Chinese Exclusion Act to post–911 crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, immigration detention has a controversial history in both our nation and in the Puget Sound region. Between World/Behind Bars is a four-part radio series exploring immigration detention from its roots in the 1930s at “Seattle's Ellis Island" in the International District to today's privately-run Northwest Detention Center on the Tacoma Tideflats.  Listen to the series on kuow.org.

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