Imaginary lines : border enforcement and the origins of undocumented immigration, 1882-1930 / Patrick Ettinger.
By: Ettinger, Patrick W
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780292725782Subject(s): Immigration enforcement -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Illegal aliens -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- United States | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century | Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 325.7309/041 LOC classification: JV6453 | .E88 2009
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.