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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452229303321

Autore

Luibhéid Eithne

Titolo

Entry denied [[electronic resource] ] : controlling sexuality at the border / / Eithne Luibhéid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8166-9282-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

325.73/082

Soggetti

Women immigrants - Government policy - United States - History

Sex and law - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 not just for controlling female sexuality but also for contesting, constructing, and renegotiating sexual identity.