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Operation Gatekeeper : the rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary / by Joseph Nevins.
- Title
- Operation Gatekeeper : the rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary / by Joseph Nevins.
- Author
- Nevins, Joseph
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, ©2002.
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- Description
- xi, 286 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Provides an immensely readable account of what has become an increasingly central concern for developed nations: keeping third world immigrants out.
- Alternative Title
- Operation Gatekeeper : the rise of the "illegal alien" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundar
- Subject
- Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
- U.S. Border Patrol
- Universidad Sergio Arboleda
- U.S. Border Patrol
- Border patrols > Mexican-American Border Region
- Noncitizens > Government policy > United States
- Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States
- Noncitizens
- Undocumented Immigrants
- Police de la frontière > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine
- Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis
- Immigrants clandestins
- Border patrols
- Noncitizens > Government policy
- Grenze
- Grenzpolizei
- Illegale Einwanderung
- Illegal aliens > Government policy > United States
- Borders
- Emigration and immigration
- Government
- Illegal immigrants
- Mexico
- Politics
- United States of America
- Noncitizens
- North America > Mexican-American Border Region
- United States
- Mexiko
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0415931045
- 0415931053
- 9780415931045
- 9780415931052
- LCCN
- 2001034989
- OCLC
- 47091782
- SCSB-10034194
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library