ISBN:
0415996937
,
0415996945
,
9780415996938
,
9780415996945
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 297 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Edition:
Second edition
DDC:
363.28/50973
Keywords:
Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
;
United States
;
Border patrols
;
Illegal aliens Government policy
;
USA
;
Mexiko
;
Staatsgrenze
;
Illegale Einwanderung
;
Grenzpolizei
;
Geschichte 1994-2010
;
Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
;
United States
;
Immigration Border Patrol
;
Illegal aliens
;
Government policy
;
United States
;
Border patrols
;
Mexican-American Border Region
Abstract:
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) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
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) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-278) and index
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