03907nam 2200553Ia 450 991081186210332120200520144314.00292795165(OCoLC)560652499(CKB)2520000000006539(MiAaPQ)EBC3443440(Au-PeEL)EBL3443440(CaPaEBR)ebr10351553(EXLCZ)99252000000000653920090331d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImaginary lines border enforcement and the origins of undocumented immigration, 1882-1930 /Patrick Ettinger1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20091 online resource (xi, 244 pages) illustrations0292721188 Includes bibliographical references and index.The menaces without : immigrant aliens and the origins of immigration restrictions -- Diverted streams : discovering a permeable border, 1882-1891 -- Drawing the lines : blueprints for immigration enforcement on the borders, 1891-1910 -- Erasing the lines : immigrant ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1895-1910 -- Northward bound : Mexican immigrants, migrants, and refugees at the border, 1900-1921 -- The sisyphean task : origins of the modern border -- An imaginary line : change and continuity on the U.S.-Mexico border."Although popularly conceived as a relatively recent phenomenon, patterns of immigrant smuggling and undocumented entry across American land borders first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Ingenious smugglers and immigrants, long and remote boundary lines, and strong push-and-pull factors created porous borders then, much as they do now.Historian Patrick Ettinger offers the first comprehensive historical study of evolving border enforcement efforts on American land borders at the turn of the twentieth century. He traces the origins of widespread immigrant smuggling and illicit entry on the northern and southern United States borders at a time when English, Irish, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Lebanese, Japanese, Greek, and, later, Mexican migrants created various 'backdoors' into the United States. No other work looks so closely at the sweeping, if often ineffectual, innovations in federal border enforcement practices designed to stem these flows.From upstate Maine to Puget Sound, from San Diego to the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, federal officials struggled to adapt national immigration policies to challenging local conditions, all the while battling wits with resourceful smugglers and determined immigrants. In effect, the period saw the simultaneous 'drawing' and 'erasing' of the official border, and its gradual articulation and elaboration in the midst of consistently successful efforts to undermine it."- from Amazon.comImmigration enforcementUnited StatesHistory19th centuryNoncitizensUnited StatesHistory19th centuryNoncitizensGovernment policyUnited StatesIllegal immigrationUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationGovernment policyMexicoEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryMexican-American Border RegionEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryImmigration enforcementHistoryNoncitizensHistoryNoncitizensGovernment policyIllegal immigration.325.7309/041Ettinger Patrick W1698802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811862103321Imaginary lines4080546UNINA