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Imaginary lines : border enforcement and the origins of undocumented immigration, 1882-1930
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Imaginary lines : border enforcement and the origins of undocumented immigration, 1882-1930 / Patrick Ettinger.
ISBN
9780292721180 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292721188 (cloth : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The menaces without : immigrant aliens and the origins of immigration restrictions
Diverted streams : discovering a permeable border, 1882-1891
Drawing the lines : blueprints for immigration enforcement on the borders, 1891-1910
Erasing the lines : immigrant ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1895-1910
Northward bound : Mexican immigrants, migrants, and refugees at the border, 1900-1921
The sisyphean task : origins of the modern border
An imaginary line : change and continuity on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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