What is the setting in the poem, Conversations About Home, from the collection, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth?

Conversations About Home takes place in the deportation center, where the speaker is met by many questions and comments about her home country, her journey to her new country, and her status as an immigrant. The deportation center is a microcosm of the speaker's new country, and so it is a place where she feels overwhelmed and unwelcome, but also grateful to be alive.