Targeting Immigrants Government, Technology, and Ethics

Name: Targeting Immigrants Government, Technology, and Ethics
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ISBN: 9781405112437

ISBN-10: 1405112433

ISBN-13: 9781405112437

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Jonathan Xavier Inda

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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…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.05" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Government and Immigration



Ethopolitics and the Management of In/security


The Ethos of Responsibility


Making Ethical Subjects


The Government of the Marginal


Racing the Unethical



Producing "the Illegal," or Making Up Subjects


Government and Numbers


Legislating Illegality


Practices of Enumeration


Surveying Routines


Ethical Territories of Exclusion


After 9/11



Anti-Citizenship Technologies and the Regulation of the Border


Governing Through Crime


Interlude


Assembling an Anti-Citizenship Technology


Interlude


Securitizing the Border


Interlude


The Aftermath of "Terror"


Interlude


The Surfeit of Dead Bodies


Interlude


Dying in Abandonment


Conclusion: Iterations


Notes


References Cited


Index