In 1994,the INS launched operation Gatekeeper, the Clinton adminstration's drastic effort to regain control of the U.S.-Mexico border. However, even as miles of new fence and hundreds of trained agents were added, the border was enjoying unprecedented economic growth. As Joseph Nevins details in Operation Gatekeeper, the effort has failed to sighificantly reduce unauthorized border crossing, but has undoubtedly resulted in hardship, and sometimes death, for many unauthorized crossers. With a journalist's eye for detail, Nevins provides an immensely readable account of what has become an increasingly central concern for developed natons:keeping Third World immigrants out.
1. Introduction
2. The Creation of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary and The Remaking of the United States And Mexico in the Border Region
3. Local Context and the Creation of Difference in the Border Region
4. The Bounding of the United States and The Emergence of Operation Gatekeeper
5. The Ideoogical Roots of the "Illegal": The "Other" As Threat and the Rise of the Boundary as the Symbol of Protection
6. The Effects and Significance of the Bounding of the united states
7. Nationalism, The Territorial State, And The Construction of Boundary-Related Identities
8. Conclusion: Searching For Security in an age of intensifying globalization