Operation Gatekeeper and beyond : the war on "illegals" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary /

"This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject complet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nevins, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
U.S. Border Patrol.
U.S. Border Patrol
Border patrols > Mexican-American Border Region.
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States.
Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States.
Noncitizens.
Undocumented Immigrants
Police de la frontière > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Immigrants clandestins.
Border patrols
Noncitizens > Government policy
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. On gate-keeping and boundary-making
  • 2. Nation building in the borderlands : constructing the U.S.-Mexico boundary
  • 3. Generating difference in San Diego-Tijuana
  • 4. Sharpening the divide : from border to boundary
  • 5. Producing the crisis: the emergence of Operation Gatekeeper
  • 6. The ideological roots of the illegal as threat and the boundary as protector
  • 7. The effects and significance of the bounding of the United States
  • 8. Security in an age of global apartheid
  • Appendix A. The U.S.-Mexican borderland in Southern California (map)
  • Appendix B. Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands (map)
  • Appendix C. The territorial expansion of the United States (map)
  • Appendix D. The remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary (map)
  • Appendix E. Chronology of selected U.S. immigration- and boundary-related legislation and developments
  • Appendix F. Change in n umber of border agents nationally, FYs 1925-2009 (chart).

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