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Chapter Seven. INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS: Managing Immigration at the Border
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written by Rachel St. John, 1976-; in Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. - Mexico Border, America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011)
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 Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. - Mexico Border, America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011)
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The Atlas of Environmental Migration
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written by Daria Mokhnacheva, fl. 2015, François Gemenne, fl. 2008 and Dina Ionesco, fl. 2017 (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2017, originally published 2017), 169 page(s)
As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater. The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this...
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written by Daria Mokhnacheva, fl. 2015, François Gemenne, fl. 2008 and Dina Ionesco, fl. 2017 (Abingdon, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2017, originally published 2017), 169 page(s)
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Beyond la Frontera: the History of Mexico-U.S. Migration
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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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Border Regions Series, Borders, Fences, and Walls
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edited by Elisabeth Vallet, fl. 2003, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2014), 299 page(s)
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of d...
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edited by Elisabeth Vallet, fl. 2003, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2014), 299 page(s)
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Border Regions Series, Borderscaping: Imaginations and practice of Border Making
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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)
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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Border Regions Series, Informal Trade, Gender and the Border Experience
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written by Olga Sasunkevich, fl. 2009, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2015), 220 page(s)
Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanie...
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written by Olga Sasunkevich, fl. 2009, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2015), 220 page(s)
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Border Regions Series, Mobility and Migration Choices
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edited by Ton van Naerssen, fl. 1993 and Martin van der Velde, fl. 2015, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2015), 306 page(s)
The crossing of national state borders is one of the most-discussed issues of contemporary times and it poses many challenges for individual and collective identities. This concerns both short-distance mobility as well as long-distance migration. Choosing to move - or not - across international borders is a comple...
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edited by Ton van Naerssen, fl. 1993 and Martin van der Velde, fl. 2015, in Border Regions Series (New York, NY: Routledge (Publisher), 2016, originally published 2015), 306 page(s)
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Border Regions Series, Placing the Border in Everyday Life
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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)
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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Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
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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)
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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Borderless Borders: U.S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence
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edited by María de los Angeles Torres, fl. 1998, Edwin Meléndez, fl. 1998, Rebecca Morales, fl. 1998 and Frank Bonilla, 1925-2010 (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998, originally published 1998), 308 page(s)
This new reality—the Latinization of the United States—is driven by forces that reach well beyond U.S. borders. It asserts itself demographically, politically, in the workplace, and in daily life. The perception that Latinos are now positioned to help bring about change in the Americas from within the United S...
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edited by María de los Angeles Torres, fl. 1998, Edwin Meléndez, fl. 1998, Rebecca Morales, fl. 1998 and Frank Bonilla, 1925-2010 (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998, originally published 1998), 308 page(s)
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