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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143302903321

Autore

Inda Jonathan Xavier

Titolo

Targeting Immigrants [[electronic resource] ] : Government, Technology, and Ethics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

1-280-23757-0

9786610237579

0-470-79710-X

0-470-77631-5

1-4051-5013-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

325.73/09/.045

325.7309.045

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Emigration and immigration - Government policy - Moral and ethical aspects

Immigrants - Government policy - United States

Immigrants

United States - Emigration and immigration - Government policy

Immigration & Emigration

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TARGETING IMMIGRANTS: Government, Technology, and Ethics; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Government and Immigration; PART ONE: Ethopolitics and the Management of In/security; The Ethos of Responsibility; Making Ethical Subjects; The Government of the Marginal; Racing the Unethical; PART TWO: Producing "the Illegal," or Making Up Subjects; Government and Numbers; Legislating Illegality; Practices of Enumeration; Surveying Routines; Ethical Territories of Exclusion; After 9/11; PART THREE:



Anti-Citizenship Technologies and the Regulation of the Border; Governing Through Crime

InterludeAssembling an Anti-Citizenship Technology; Interlude; Securitizing the Border; Interlude; The Aftermath of "Terror"; Interlude; The Surfeit of Dead Bodies; Interlude; Dying in Abandonment; Conclusion: Iterations; Notes; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with the government of "illegal" immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government. Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about and constructed "illegal" immigration as an ethical problem. Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border. Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source materials - including government publi