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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Nevins |
| ISBN: | 0415931045 9780415931045 0415931053 9780415931052 |
| OCLC Number: | 47091782 |
| Description: | xi, 286 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The creation of the U.S.-Mexico boundary and the remaking of the United States and Mexico in the border region -- Local context and the creation of difference in the border region -- The bounding of the United States and the emergence of operation gatekeeper -- The ideological roots of the "Illegal": the "other" as threat and the rise of the boundary as the symbol of protection -- The effects and significance of the bounding of the United States -- Nationalism, the territorial state, and the construction of boundary-related identities. |
| Other Titles: | Operation Gatekeeper : the rise of the "illegal alien" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundar |
| Responsibility: | by Joseph Nevins. |
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..."an exaustively researched and well-organized compendium of information on the history and making of the Mexico-U.S boundary...The book's strength lies in its conceptual emphasis on immigration policy as a political-economic process rooted in deep-seated sociocultural agendas that materialize across time and space. [This] book will be helpful in bringing the illegal immigration debate into the larger discourse about globalization and the post 9/11 future of the Mexico-U.S border."<br>-International Migration Review, Vol. 36, No. 4 Winter 2002 <br>"Nevins' research is highly original...skillfully introduces academic material within a compelling narrative. The ideas are fresh, the scholarly debates are fully engaged, and the storyline never lags."<br>-Annals of the Association of American Geographers <br>"Bill Clinton launched Operation Gatekeeper in 1994....Nevins demonstrates how this politcally motivated policy failed to significantly reduce unauthorized border crossings."<br>-Foreign Affairs <br>..."a richly descriptive historical volume about the US Border Patrol strategy to enhance the enforcement of boundaries since 1994."<br>-"Choice <br>"Nevins meticulously deconstructs this political, and above all, human phenomenon in a thorough and penetrating text. "Operation Gatekeeper could not be more timely: literally, there are lives on the line."<br>-Ruben Martinez, author of "Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail <br> Read more...
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- Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- United States.
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- U.S. Border Patrol.
- Operation Gatekeeper (Estados Unidos)
- Estados Unidos. -- Immigration Border Patrol.
- Grenze.
- Grenzpolizei.
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- USA.
- Mexiko.
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