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100 1 $aNevins, Joseph.
245 10 $aOperation Gatekeeper and beyond :$bthe war on "illegals" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary /$cJoseph Nevins.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2010.
300 $ax, 297 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [228]-278) and index.
520 $aThis 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.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments -- 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.
650 0 $aIllegal aliens$xGovernment policy$zUnited States.
610 20 $aOperation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
650 0 $aBorder patrols$zMexican-American Border Region.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bImmigration Border Patrol.