Empire of borders : the expansion of the US border around the world /

"The twenty-first century has been an era of hardening borders--increased borderland patrols, surveillance and militarization are widening the chasm between those who can vacation (or do business) where they please, and others whose movements are restricted by armed guards. But as journalist To...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Todd, 1970- (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso 2019.
Subjects:
United States. > Immigration Border Patrol.
Border security > United States.
Border security > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Foreign relations > Developing countries.
Developing countries > Foreign relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Twenty-first century battlefields
  • The U.S. "border set" on the Guatemala-Honduras divide
  • The global pacification industry on the Palestine-Mexico border
  • "Selling a security state"
  • Securing inequality on the U.S.-Mexico border
  • Borders of empires, the colonial creation story
  • Maps of empires
  • The Caribbean frontier
  • The Philippines and the periphery of empire
  • Extreme vetting
  • "We've got big brothers and sisters all over the place"
  • The global caste system
  • Armoring capitalism, "teaching the Mexicans how to fish"
  • Armoring NAFTA
  • "A return on our investments"
  • Resistance and transformation on the U.S.-Middle East border
  • The unholstered border
  • The right to the world on the U.S.-Syria border
  • The U.S.-African border in the anthropocene : the case to dissolve borders
  • "Shoring up the frontiers of fortress America"
  • Negotiating borders on a warming planet
  • The future : the airport and the ceiba in Copan.

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