Targeting immigrants : government, technology, and ethics / / Jonathan Xavier Inda
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| Autore: |
Inda Jonathan Xavier
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| Titolo: |
Targeting immigrants : government, technology, and ethics / / Jonathan Xavier Inda
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [2006] |
| ©2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325.7309.045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - Government policy - United States |
| Emigration and immigration - Government policy - Moral and ethical aspects | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Emigration and immigration Government policy |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [190]-207) and index. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Targeting immigrants |
| ISBN: | 1-280-23757-0 |
| 9786610237579 | |
| 0-470-79710-X | |
| 0-470-77631-5 | |
| 1-4051-5013-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830103303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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