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11	Space, Power, Policy, and the Creation of the “Illegal” Migrant at the United States Boundary with Mexico Biesman-Simons, Catalina J 01 January 2019 (has links) This thesis discusses the relationship between space (physical and figurative) and sovereign power, with respect to the history of the United States' immigration and boundary policy. It examines spatial organization as a social product, and simultaneously a producer of mainstream associations of illegal activity at the border with Mexico. It begins with a brief introduction to a spatially informed analytical framework, a history of relevant United States' immigration policy. The paper then uses newspaper coverage from the 1970s and 1980s to examine the local and national rise of xenophobia in the United States, and the normalization of boundary control and associated illegality. The socio-spatial evaluation of federal policy and public sentiment culminates with a discussion of the border policies developed by the United States Border Patrol in the early 1990s. The strategy introduced focused on preventing immigration by deterring migrants from the attempt. This plan was necessarily spatial in nature as it sought to displace migrants from ideal crossing spaces to sites vulnerable to capture by the Border Patrol. Ultimately, the history of the United States boundary with Mexico demonstrates the power of controlling a territory, and controlling a social narrative. Border history United States policy Border Patrol Mexican immigration criminalization socially constructed space Chicana/o Studies Other Political Science Political History Social History United States History
12	U.S. Immigration Authorities and Victims of Human and Civil Rights Abuses: The Border Interaction Project Study of South Tucson, Arizona, and South Texas Koulish, Robert E., Escobedo, Manuel, Rubio-Goldsmith, Raquel, Warren, John Robert January 1994 (has links) No description available. Border patrols -- Arizona -- Tucson Illegal aliens -- United States Human rights -- United States Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights
13	Internalizing Borderlands: the Performance of Borderlands Identity De Roover, Megan 02 January 2013 (has links) In order to establish a working understanding of borders, the critical conversation must be conscious of how the border is being used politically, theoretically, and socially. This thesis focuses on the border as forcibly ensuring the performance of identity as individuals, within the context of borderlands, become embodiments of the border, and their performance of identity is created by the influence of external borders that become internalized. The internalized border can be read both as infection, a problematic divide needing to be removed, as well as an opportunity for bridging, crossing that divide. I bring together Charles Bowden (Blue Desert), Monique Mojica (Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots), Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead), and Guillermo Verdecchia (Fronteras Americanas) in order to develop a comprehensive analysis of the border and border identity development. In these texts, individuals are forced to negotiate their sense of self according to pre-existing cultural and social expectations on either side of the border, performing identity according to how they want to be socially perceived. The result can often be read as a fragmentation of identity, a discrepancy between how the individual feels and how they are read. I examine how identity performance occurs within the context of the border, brought on by violence and exemplified through the division between the spirit world and the material world, the manipulation of costuming and uniforms, and the body. / Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award). Borders Borderlands Indigeneity Chicano/a Identity Performance Transcultural Cultural Studies Violence Tricksters Witches Shaman Storytellers Costuming Uniforms Border Patrol Mexico/U.S. Trauma The Body Ideology Gloria Anzaldua Monique Mojica Guillermo Verdecchia Leslie Marmon Silko Charles Bowden Internalizing the Border
14	On the Fence Medrano, Estevan 12 1900 (has links) Living the vast majority of my life in an area that celebrates diversity but thrives because of illegal cross-border activities (undocumented workers, drug imports) at times the distance between the United States and Mexico is in fact as thin as the width of a fence. Though it is typical for a filmmaker to hope to present a unique take on a subject, given how I have seen the topics of immigration and the perspective of the purpose of homeland security portray, I am confident that there is an opportunity to show these issues in a more personal, less aggressive light with the use of first person accounts instead of a dependence on the most violent aspects of these topics. The main subject will give character to this agency by blurring the lines of his life as an agent and as a citizen. border fence Homeland Security customs immigration Mexico border crossing Mexico -- Emigration and immigration.

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