Border policing : a history of enforcement and evasion in North America

Border policing : a history of enforcement and evasion in North America /

"This collection of original essays brings together a dozen pieces on the history of policing practices along both the southern and northern US borders. The two volume editors themselves have done work that represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the respective borders: Diaz in Border Con...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Karibo, Holly M. (Editor), Diaz, George T., 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Border patrols > North America > History.
Law enforcement > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Law enforcement > Canadian-American Border Region > History.
Borderlands > United States > History.
Immigration enforcement > United States > History.
Smuggling > United States > History.
Border security > United States > History.
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e-books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz
  • Part I. Emerging borders : policing boundaries in the nineteenth century. Defining the acceptable bounds of deception : policing the prize game in the northeastern borderlands, 1812-1815 / Edward Martin
  • Dominance in an imagined border : Santos Benavides's and Santiago Vidaurri's policing of the Rio Grande / Luis Alberto García
  • A border without guards : First Nations and the enforcement of national space / Benjamin Hoy
  • Part II: Solidifying States, Testing Boundaries. To protect and police : Mexican consuls in the American borderlands at the turn of the twentieth century / María de Jesús Duarte
  • Enforcing US immigration laws at the US-Canada border, 1891-1940 : the view from Detroit / Thomas A. Klug
  • The roots of the border patrol : line riders and the bureaucratization of US-Mexican border policing, 1894-1924 / James Dupree
  • Home guard : state-sponsored vigilantism and violence in the Texas-Mexico borderlands / Miguel A. Levario
  • Part III: Building and resisting a Prohibition apparatus. Policing peyote country in the early twentieth century / Lisa D. Barnett
  • Skirting the law : female liquor smugglers and sellers and policing through Prohibition along the Rio Grande / Carolina Monsiváis
  • Building a villain/hero binary : public rhetoric, smuggling, and enforcement in the postwar borderlands / Holly M. Karibo
  • Part IV: Expanding state authority and its challenges. Diversity and the border patrol : race and gender in immigration enforcement along the US-Mexico Border / Jensen Branscombe
  • Refusing borders : Haudenosaunee resistance, tobacco, and settler-colonial borderlands / Devin Clancy and Tyler Chartrand
  • Border surge : drug trafficking and escalating police power on the Rio Grande / Santiago Ivan Guerra
  • Bordering reality : dramatizing policing the North American borderlands in reality television / Anita Huizar-Hernández
  • Afterword : Within and without borders / Karl Jacoby.

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