Targeting Immigrants (PDF)
Government, Technology, and Ethics
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book is concerned with the government of "illegal"
immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965,
exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have
rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.
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immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965,
exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have
rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.
* *...
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This book is concerned with the government of "illegal"
immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965,
exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have
rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.
* * Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about
and constructed "illegal" immigration as an ethical
problem.
* Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern
immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
* Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source
materials - including government publications, archival
documents, newspapers, and popular magazines.
* Studies measures (e.g. Operation Gatekeeper and Operation
Hold-the-Line) for reforming the conduct of "illegal"
immigrants in order to forestall illicit border crossings.
* Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of
governmentality.
* Highlights the role of numbers and statistics in constructing
the "illegal" immigrant.
immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965,
exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have
rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.
* * Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about
and constructed "illegal" immigration as an ethical
problem.
* Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern
immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
* Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source
materials - including government publications, archival
documents, newspapers, and popular magazines.
* Studies measures (e.g. Operation Gatekeeper and Operation
Hold-the-Line) for reforming the conduct of "illegal"
immigrants in order to forestall illicit border crossings.
* Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of
governmentality.
* Highlights the role of numbers and statistics in constructing
the "illegal" immigrant.
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Xavier Inda
Jonathan Xavier Inda is Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Xavier Inda
- 2008, 1. Auflage, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1405150130
- ISBN-13: 9781405150132
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2008
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