Operation gatekeeper and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : the war on illegals and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary / / Joseph Nevins

• Autore: Nevins Joseph
• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 363.28/50973
• Soggetto topico: Noncitizens - Government policy - United States; Border patrols - Mexican-American Border Region; Illegal immigration
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Operation gatekeeper and beyond
• ISBN: 1-135-15922-X; 1-135-15923-8; 1-282-63976-5; 9786612639760; 0-203-85773-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791121003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II