UID:
almafu_9959284559902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (334 pages)
ISBN:
1282556223
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9786612556227
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0520945719
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0520946618
Serie:
American crossroads ; 29
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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introduction --
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Part One. Formation --
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Part Two. Transformation --
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Part Three. Operation Wetback and Beyond --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520266412
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520257693
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/9780520945715
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