Operation gatekeeper and beyond the war on illegals and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary - Nevins, Joseph; T&F eBooks (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Keywords: Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.); United States. -- Immigration Border Patrol; Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- United States; Border patrols -- Mexican-American Border Region; Electronic books