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Border games : the politics of policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide / Peter Andreas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andreas, Peter, 1965- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Border patrols--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Border patrols.
- Boundaries.
- Drug control--United States.
- Drug control.
- Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.
- Noncitizens.
- Smuggling--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Smuggling.
- Illegal immigration--Government policy--United States.
- Illegal immigration.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexico--Boundaries--United States.
- Mexico.
- United States--Boundaries--Mexico.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Edition:
- 3rd edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This third edition charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border. Recent border crackdowns and wall-building campaigns, the book argues, are not unprecedented. Rather, they are the outcome of an escalatory dynamic already in motion-but now played out on a far bigger stage, with higher stakes, and in new security and political contexts. Focusing on the power of symbolic politics and policy feedback effects, the book traces the logic behind such build up. Border policing is an attractive political mechanism for handling the often unintended consequences of past policy choices, signaling a commitment to territorial integrity and projecting an image of territorial authority. Yet its negative aftermath is not only frequently glossed over; it also fuels further escalation.
- Contents:
- The escalation of border policing
- Creating the clandestine side of the border economy
- The escalation of drug control
- The escalation of immigration control
- Escalation in a new security landscape
- Escalation in a new political landscape
- Rebordering in the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Previous edition: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781501765780
- 1501765787
- 9781501765803
- 1501765809
- OCLC:
- 1344542851
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