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Operation Gatekeeper and beyond : the war on "illegals" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary
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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 po...
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 completely up to date, but as a "case" of increasing economic integration and liberalization along with growing immigration control, the US. / Mexico Border and its history is put in a wider global context of similar development s elsewhere--Product description.
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- Creator
- Joseph Nevins
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- Language
- English
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- Second edition
- New York : Routledge, 2010
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- x, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0203857739, 1135159238, 9780203857731, 9780415996945, 113515922X, 0415996937, 0415996945, 1282639765, 9786612639760, 9780415996938
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- ocn649428684, ocn642661679, ocn299711402
- 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