Migra! : a history of the U.S. Border Patrol / Kelly Lytle Hernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Kelly Lytle.

Series:

American crossroads ; 29.

American crossroads ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

U.S. Border Patrol--History.

U.S. Border Patrol.

Noncitizens--Mexican-American Border Region.

Noncitizens.

Illegal immigration.

Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Mexican-American Border Region.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Other Title:

History of the U.S. Border Patrol

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands and bringing to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics, Migra! reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a project of policing Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

introduction

Part One. Formation

Part Two. Transformation

Part Three. Operation Wetback and Beyond

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612556227

9781282556225

1282556223

9780520945715

0520945719

9780520946613

0520946618

OCLC:

630535780