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Operation Gatekeeper Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)

Operation Gatekeeper By Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)

Operation Gatekeeper by Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)

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By 1994, American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of migrants entered the US nightly. In response, the INS launched "Operation Gatekeeper," the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's effort to "regain control" of borders. This work details the administration's overhaul of the San Diego-Tijauna border.

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Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Remaking of the U.S. - Mexico Boundary by Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)

By 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of migrants entered the U.S. nightly. In response, the INS launched "Operation Gatekeeper," the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's unprecedented effort to "regain control" of our borders. In Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins details the administration's dramatic overhaul of the San Diego-Tijauna border-the busiest land crossing in the world-adding miles of new fence and hundreds of trained agents.

Operation Gatekeeper Reviews

...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.

About Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)

Joseph Nevins is an accomplished journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley Mike Davis is a contributing editor to The Nation and Professor of History at SUNY Stony Brook. He is the author of four books, including Magical Urbanism and City of Quartz.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Creation of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary and the Re-making of the United States and Mexico in the Border Region 3. Local Context and the Creation of Difference in the Border Region 4. The Bounding of the United States and the Emergence of Operation Gatekeeper 5. The Ideological Roots of the "Illegal": The "Other" as Threat and the Rise of the Boundary as the Symbol of Protection 6. The Effects and Significance of the Bounding of the United States 7. Nationalism, the Territorial State, and the Construction of Boundary-Related Identities 8. Conclusion: Searching for Security in an Age of Intensifying Globalization APPENDIX A Map: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in Southern California APPENDIX B Map: Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands APPENDIX C Map: The Territorial Expansion of the United States APPENDIX D Map: The Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary APPENDIX E Chronology of Selected U.S. Immigration and Boundary-related Legislation and Developments APPENDIX F Table of number of Border Patrol Agents nationally Fiscal Year (FY) 1925 FY2000; chart displaying change in number of Border Patrol Agents nationally FY1925-FY1973; and chart displaying change in number of Border Patrol Agents nationally FY1925-FY2000. APPENDIX G Cover from December 1974 issue of The American Legion magazine BIBLIOGRAPHY

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CIN0415931053G
9780415931052
0415931053
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Remaking of the U.S. - Mexico Boundary by Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)
Joseph Nevins (Vassar College, USA)
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2001-12-13
256
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