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Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and EthicsISBN: 978-1-4051-5013-2
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224 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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) for reforming the conduct of “illegal” immigrants in order to forestall illicit border crossings.
- Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of governmentality.
- Highlights the role of numbers and statistics in constructing the “illegal” immigrant.
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