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Autore |
Nevins Joseph |
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Operation gatekeeper and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : the war on illegals and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary / / Joseph Nevins |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-15922-X |
1-135-15923-8 |
1-282-63976-5 |
9786612639760 |
0-203-85773-9 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Noncitizens - Government policy - United States |
Border patrols - Mexican-American Border Region |
Illegal immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an |
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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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