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Operation Gatekeeper : the rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary

Author: Joseph Nevins
Publisher: New York : Routledge, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Provides an immensely readable account of what has become an increasingly central concern for developed nations: keeping third world immigrants out.
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Material Type: Internet resource
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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Provides an immensely readable account of what has become an increasingly central concern for developed nations: keeping third world immigrants out.

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