The Borders of America by Soledad lvarez Velasco, Nicholas D... - 9781478029625

The Borders of AmericaMigration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean\nAuthor(s): Soledad lvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478029625, 978-1478029625\nSynopsis\nThe Borders of America examines the tension between human migration and the diverse formations of border control and immigration and asylum policy that have arisen across the Americas since the start of the twenty-first century. The collection develops a single analytical framework that is hemispheric in scope, encompassing the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and the full extent of Latin America. The contributors offer the concept of a border regime as an epistemological and methodological approach that comprehends borders not merely as physical demarcations between state territories and jurisdictions but rather as expansive, uneven, and heterogeneousz