Border Policing : : A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America / / ed. by George T. Díaz, Holly M. Karibo.

• MitwirkendeR: Barnett, Lisa D.,; Branscombe, Jensen,; Carey, Elaine,; Chartrand, Tyler,; Clancy, Devin,; De Jesús Duarte, María,; Dupree, James,; Díaz, George T.,; García, Luis Alberto,; Guerra, Santiago Ivan,; Hoy, Benjamin,; Huizar-Hernández, Anita,; Jacoby, Karl,; Karibo, Holly M.,; Klug, Thomas A.,; Levario, Miguel A.,; Marak, Andrae,; Martin, Edward J.,; Monsiváis, Carolina,
• HerausgeberIn: Díaz, George T.,; Karibo, Holly M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

An extensive history examining how North American nations have tried (and often failed) to police their borders, Border Policing presents diverse scholarly perspectives on attempts to regulate people and goods at borders, as well as on the ways that individuals and communities have navigated, contes...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Introduction
• PART I Emerging Borders: Policing Boundaries in the Nineteenth Century
• ONE Defining the Acceptable Bounds of Deception
• TWO Dominance in an Imagined Border
• THREE A Border without Guards
• PART II Solidifying States, Testing Boundaries
• FOUR To Protect and Police
• FIVE Enforcing US Immigration Laws at the US-Canada Border, 1891-1940
• SIX The Roots of the Border Patrol
• SEVEN Home Guard
• PART III Building and Resisting a Prohibition Apparatus
• EIGHT Policing Peyote Country in the Early Twentieth Century
• NINE Skirting the Law
• TEN Building a Villain/Hero Binary
• PART IV Expanding State Authority and Its Challenges
• ELEVEN Diversity and the Border Patrol
• TWELVE Refusing Borders
• THIRTEEN Border Surge
• FOURTEEN Bordering Reality
• Afterword. Within and Without Borders
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index