Operation Gatekeeper and beyond : the war on "illegals" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary / Joseph Nevins

Object Details

Author

Nevins, Joseph

Subject

Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)

U.S. Border Patrol

NMAH copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds.

Contents

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

Summary

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.

2010

Type

Books

Physical description

x, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place

United States

Mexican-American Border Region

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Illegal aliens--Government policy

Border patrols

Undocumented immigrants

Record ID

siris_sil_1082361

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0