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Entry denied : controlling sexuality at the border /

Since the late nineteenth century, immigrant women's sexuality has been viewed as a threat to national security, to be contained through strict border-monitoring practices. By scrutinizing this policy, its origins, and its application, Eithne Luibhéid shows how the U.S. border became a site no...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Luibhéid, Eithne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Entry denied : a history of U.S. immigration control
  • A blueprint for exclusion : the Page law, prostitution, and discrimination against Chinese women
  • Birthing a nation : race, ethnicity, and childbearing
  • Looking like a lesbian : sexual monitoring at the U.S.-Mexico border
  • Rape, asylum, and the U.S. border patrol.