Imaginary lines : border enforcement and the origins of undocumented immigration, 1882-1930 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ettinger, Patrick W.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Description:	xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Immigration enforcement -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Illegal aliens -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- United States. Immigration enforcement Emigration and immigration. Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. Illegal aliens. Illegal aliens -- Government policy. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. Mexico. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7904412

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ISBN:	9780292721180 (cloth : alk. paper) 0292721188 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Menaces Without: Immigrant Aliens and the Origins of Immigration Restrictions
Chapter 2. Diverted Streams: Discovering a Permeable Border, 1882-1891
Chapter 3. Drawing the Lines: Blueprints For Immigration Enforcement on the Borders, 1891-1910
Chapter 4. Erasing the Lines: Immigrant Ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1895-1910
Chapter 5. Northward Bound: Mexican Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees at the Border, 1900-1921
Chapter 6. The Sisyphean Task: Origins of the Modern Border
Epilogue An Imaginary Line: Change and Continuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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