Kelly Lytle Hernández
Migra!
A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
$55.00, £37.95 hardcover
9780520257696
NYP--Due 5/10
$21.95, £14.95 paperback
9780520266414
NYP--Due 5/10
322 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 10 b/w photographs, 1 map, 6 tables
May 2010, Available worldwide
Also in: Latino Studies; Sociology of Immigration & Emigration
May 2010, Available worldwide
Also in: Latino Studies; Sociology of Immigration & Emigration
Migra! chronicles the untold history of the United States Border Patrol—from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands, telling the stories of the men assigned to enforce U.S. immigration law, and bringing to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics, Migra! reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a project of policing
"Migra! is the first and only substantive history of the U.S. Border Patrol. Hernandez breaks new ground in this deeply researched account of its formation and development."—George Sanchez, author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Introduction
Part One: Formation
1. The Early Years of the U.S. Border Patrol
2. A Sanctuary of Violence: The U.S. Border Patrol in the Greater Texas-Mexico Borderlands
3. The California-Arizona Borderlands
4. Mexico's Labor Emigrants, America's Illegal Immigrants: The Rise of Mexican Emigration Control
Part Two: Transformation
5. A New Beginning: World War II and the U.S. Border Patrol
6. The Corridors of Migration Control
7. Uprising: A Farmers' Rebellion
Part Three: Operation Wetback and Beyond
8. The Triumphs of {apos}54
9. "The Day of the Wetback Is Over": Migration Control and Crime Control in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Introduction
Part One: Formation
1. The Early Years of the U.S. Border Patrol
2. A Sanctuary of Violence: The U.S. Border Patrol in the Greater Texas-Mexico Borderlands
3. The California-Arizona Borderlands
4. Mexico's Labor Emigrants, America's Illegal Immigrants: The Rise of Mexican Emigration Control
Part Two: Transformation
5. A New Beginning: World War II and the U.S. Border Patrol
6. The Corridors of Migration Control
7. Uprising: A Farmers' Rebellion
Part Three: Operation Wetback and Beyond
8. The Triumphs of {apos}54
9. "The Day of the Wetback Is Over": Migration Control and Crime Control in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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