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Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics
Jonathan Xavier Inda
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Description for Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics
Paperback. * 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
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.
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) ... Read more
- Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of governmentality.
- Highlights the role of numbers and statistics in constructing the “illegal” immigrant.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405112437
SKU
V9781405112437
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99-50
About Jonathan Xavier Inda
Jonathan Xavier Inda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics
"Inda's Exploration of the racialized ethical manner in which unauthorized immigration has been managed is a significant contribution to the literature of governmentality." Anthropos