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60 Minutes, Dying To Get In
produced by David Gelber, fl. 1991-2014 and Joel Bach, fl. 2005-2014, Columbia Broadcasting System; interview by Ed Bradley, 1941-2006, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2006), 13 mins
This segment documents the problems the U.S. encounters trying to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country from its southern borders. Ed Bradley reports.
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produced by David Gelber, fl. 1991-2014 and Joel Bach, fl. 2005-2014, Columbia Broadcasting System; interview by Ed Bradley, 1941-2006, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2006), 13 mins
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This segment documents the problems the U.S. encounters trying to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country from its southern borders. Ed Bradley reports.
Date Written / Recorded
2006-06-04
Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
News story
Contributor
David Gelber, fl. 1991-2014, Joel Bach, fl. 2005-2014, Columbia Broadcasting System
Author / Creator
Ed Bradley, 1941-2006
Date Published / Released
2006-06-04
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System
Series
60 Minutes
Person Discussed
Wayne A. Cornelius, fl. 1979, Tom Tancredo, 1945-, T. J. Bonner, fl. 2006, Mark Reed, 1957-, Bruce Parks, fl. 2006, Garrett Neubauer, fl. 2006
Topic / Theme
Death, Government policy, Crossing borders, Immigrant populations, Immigration laws, Immigration and emigration, Migration and Diaspora
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Copyright © 2006 by Columbia Broadcasting System
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60 Minutes, Watching the Border
produced by Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013, Columbia Broadcasting System, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2010), 14 mins
January 10, 2010, 8:00 PM-Steve Kroft reports on the status of the multi-billion-dollar "virtual fence" being built at the U.S.-Mexican border, which is behind schedule and so far covers only about one percent of the border.
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produced by Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013, Columbia Broadcasting System, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2010), 14 mins
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January 10, 2010, 8:00 PM-Steve Kroft reports on the status of the multi-billion-dollar "virtual fence" being built at the U.S.-Mexican border, which is behind schedule and so far covers only about one percent of the border.
Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
News story
Contributor
Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013, Columbia Broadcasting System
Author / Creator
Steve Kroft, 1945-
Date Published / Released
2010-01-10
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System
Series
60 Minutes
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Immigration and emigration, Law enforcement, Crossing borders, Political boundaries, Science and Technology, Migration and Diaspora, Politics & Policy, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2010 by Columbia Broadcasting System
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60 Minutes, Tania's Story
presented by Sharyn Alfonsi, 1972-; produced by Guy Campanile, fl. 2009; interview by Sharyn Alfonsi, 1972-, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019), 12 mins
An interview with Tania Avalos, the wife and mother of Oscar and Valeria Avalos, who were found dead on the banks of the Rio Grande at the Mexico-United States border. Avalos and her family fled rampant violence and poverty in El Salvador and were seeking asylum in the United States. When a gang demanded a large s...
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presented by Sharyn Alfonsi, 1972-; produced by Guy Campanile, fl. 2009; interview by Sharyn Alfonsi, 1972-, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019), 12 mins
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An interview with Tania Avalos, the wife and mother of Oscar and Valeria Avalos, who were found dead on the banks of the Rio Grande at the Mexico-United States border. Avalos and her family fled rampant violence and poverty in El Salvador and were seeking asylum in the United States. When a gang demanded a large sum of money for the group to continue their journey, they had to decide whether or not to push forward. They chose to attempt to cross...
An interview with Tania Avalos, the wife and mother of Oscar and Valeria Avalos, who were found dead on the banks of the Rio Grande at the Mexico-United States border. Avalos and her family fled rampant violence and poverty in El Salvador and were seeking asylum in the United States. When a gang demanded a large sum of money for the group to continue their journey, they had to decide whether or not to push forward. They chose to attempt to cross the river, 50 yards wide, though they were unable to swim due to rough conditions. The image of Oscar and Valeria became the symbol of the crisis at the border and prompted a rushed funding package from Congress to address conditions at facilities at the border. However, in the months since, no additional legislation has passed and an additional 52 migrant bodies have washed up on the riverbank. Avalos says her family was only looking for a better life.
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Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
Interview, News story
Contributor
Guy Campanile, fl. 2009
Author / Creator
Sharyn Alfonsi, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Series
60 Minutes
Topic / Theme
Immigration and emigration, Crisis management, Right of asylum, Crossing borders, Migrant life, Migration and Diaspora, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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America in the World, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. - Mexico Border
written by Rachel St. John, 1976-, in America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 297 page(s)
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary...
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written by Rachel St. John, 1976-, in America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 297 page(s)
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Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on t...
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Rachel St. John, 1976-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Series
America in the World
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Ethnic relations, International relations, Political boundaries, Sociology, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Mexicans, Americans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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American Expatriate in Canada, Amex-Canada, Vol. 2 no. 4, Whole Number 20, June 1970
edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1970), 36 page(s)
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edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1970), 36 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1970
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Immigration and emigration, Expatriates, Military desertion, Draft evasion, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Left and radical left movements, Vietnam War
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Copyright owner is unknown. Alexander Street Press is eager to hear from any rights owners who are not properly identified so that appropriate information may be provided in the future. Any information concerning rights to this work can be sent to the editor at the address below.
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Beyond la Frontera: the History of Mexico-U.S. Migration
edited by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 400 page(s)
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. F...
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edited by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, fl. 2011 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 400 page(s)
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Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring essays by leading authors in the field, the book utilizes both a chronological and thematic structure, referencing mutually in...
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date historical overview of Mexican migration to the U.S., Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-U.S. Migration examines the transnational and historical impact of migratory trends as they developed in Mexico and the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring essays by leading authors in the field, the book utilizes both a chronological and thematic structure, referencing mutually influential periods in Mexican and Mexican-American history. Taking into consideration the bi-national historical factors and narrative constructions of Mexican migration, Beyond la Frontera also describes how we may better understand the persistent legislative debates surrounding migrant rights and national sovereignty.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, fl. 2011
Date Published / Released
2011, 01 July 2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Migrant life, Immigration and emigration, Crossing borders, Geography, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2011 Oxford University Press, Inc.
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Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers
edited by Hastings Donnan, 1953- and Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998, originally published 1998), 316 page(s)
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse f...
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edited by Hastings Donnan, 1953- and Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998, originally published 1998), 316 page(s)
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This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. As a contribution to the wider theoretical debates about nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization, it wi...
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. As a contribution to the wider theoretical debates about nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization, it will interest students and scholars in anthropology, political science, international studies and modern history.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Hastings Donnan, 1953-, Thomas M. Wilson, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Nationalism, Cultural identity, Political boundaries, Geography, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 1998 Cambridge University Press
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Border Regions Series, Borderscaping: Imaginations and practice of Border Making
(2016); edited by James W. Scott, fl. 2015, Jussi Laine, fl. 2007, Gianluca Bocchi, 1954- and Chiara Brambilla, fl. 2007, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2015), 279 page(s)
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized...
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(2016); edited by James W. Scott, fl. 2015, Jussi Laine, fl. 2007, Gianluca Bocchi, 1954- and Chiara Brambilla, fl. 2007, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2015), 279 page(s)
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Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing bo...
Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ’challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and living borders under contemporary globalization.
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Date Written / Recorded
2016
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Contributor
James W. Scott, fl. 2015, Jussi Laine, fl. 2007, Gianluca Bocchi, 1954-, Chiara Brambilla, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2015, 2016
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Border Regions Series
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Political boundaries, Crossing borders, Sociology, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 Chiara Brambilla, Jussi Laine, James W. Scott and Gianluca Bocchi
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Border Regions Series, Placing the Border in Everyday Life
edited by Corey Johnson, fl. 2016 and Reece Jones, fl. 2016, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 277 page(s)
Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails...
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edited by Corey Johnson, fl. 2016 and Reece Jones, fl. 2016, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2014, originally published 2014), 277 page(s)
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Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done...
Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book investigates the diffusion of bordering narratives and practices by asking ’who borders and how?’ Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions from major international scholars in the field of border studies and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state in the era of globalization.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Corey Johnson, fl. 2016, Reece Jones, fl. 2016
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Series
Border Regions Series
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Crossing borders, Politics & Policy, Sociology, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2014 Reece Jones and Corey Johnson
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Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
edited by Daniel Robert DeChaine, 1961- and John Louis Lucaites, fl. 2012 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 284 page(s)
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A 'border' is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judi...
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edited by Daniel Robert DeChaine, 1961- and John Louis Lucaites, fl. 2012 (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 284 page(s)
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Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A 'border' is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerm...
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A 'border' is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity.
The border’s rhetorical significance is nowhere more apparent, nor its effects more concentrated, than on the frontier between the United States and Mexico. Often understood as an unruly boundary in dire need of containment from the ravages of criminals, illegal aliens, and other undesirable threats to the national body, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative constructions of 'proper'; border relations reinforce definitions of US citizenship, which in turn can lead to anxiety, unrest, and violence centered around the struggle to define what it means to be a member of a national political community.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Daniel Robert DeChaine, 1961-, John Louis Lucaites, fl. 2012
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Immigration and emigration, Crossing borders, Geography, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2012 The University of Alabama Press. Used with permission.
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