Border Games : Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide /

"The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andreas, Peter, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Noncitizens.
Schmuggel
Rauschgifthandel
Illegaler Einwanderer
Grenzpolizeiliche Kontrolle
Grenzgebiet
Eskalation
Smuggling.
Noncitizens > Government policy.
Economic history.
Drug control.
Boundaries.
Border patrols.
Illegal immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
boundaries.
Immigrants clandestins.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Contrebande > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Drogues > Trafic > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Immigration clandestine > États-Unis.
Police de la frontiere > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Frontieres.
Undocumented Immigrants
Drug traffic > Government policy > United States.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States.
Smuggling > Mexican-American Border Region.
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States.
Drug control > United States.
Border patrols > Mexican-American Border Region.
USA.
Mexiko
United States.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Conditions economiques.
États-Unis > Frontieres > Mexique.
United States > Boundaries > Mexico.
Mexico > Boundaries > United States.
Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The escalation of border policing
  • The political economy of global smuggling
  • Creating the clandestine side of the border economy
  • The escalation of drug control
  • The escalation of immigration control
  • Policing the external borders of the new Europe
  • Borders restated
  • Afterword: border games in a new security context.

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