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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"border enforcement"”.
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… an opportunity to reevaluate canon formation, Border studies discourse, and also serve as a platform to engage with twenty-first century conversations of globalism, border enforcement, and African American-Latinx solidarity.</p>
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Drugs and Deportation on the Border: Post-Deportation Geographies of Enforcement and Conflict
… explores the ways that immigration and border enforcement regimes have shifted deportees' relationships to violence in border cities. By taking a feminist geopolitical perspective, I use first hand accounts of deportation to interrogate the complex connections between space and violence. …
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Imperial divides: race, nation, security and the U.S.-Mexico border, 1940-1955
Imperial Divides explores the history of border policing between the United States and Mexico from the 1940s to the 1950s. I examine the links between international security and the early efforts to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border, focusing on the cultural production of a boundary cast in …
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The Open City: A Grammatology of Migrant-Rights Movements and the Logic of Sovereignty
… give rise to emergent technologies of border enforcement and extra-territorialization, detention, deportation and encampment. In departure from this logic, and signaling the possibilia of radically new institutional frameworks, attention to migrant-rights movements supports a distinct …
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Essays in economic development and education
… of United States-Mexico migration to U.S. border enforcement policy. Spending on border enforcement has risen by 240% in the U. S. in the last decade, and the construction of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border has become a focal point in the debate over the costs and benefits of increased …
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An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America
… of Central American apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol. Explanations for this surge in apprehensions have been split between two leading hypotheses. Most academic scholars, immigrant advocates, progressive media outlets, and human rights organizations identify poverty and violence (the …