Book ID: CBB304288480

Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond (2022)

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Ana Muñiz (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 254
Language: English

Political discourse on immigration in the United States has largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s, Borderland Circuitry investigates how the deployment of this information infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined: digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create multiple digital borderlands. Diving deep into a select group of information systems, Borderland Circuitry reveals how those with legal and political power deploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the destruction of land for border militarization.

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Authors & Contributors
Galis, Vasilis
Gilliom, John
Hall, R. Cargill
Kim, Eun-Sung
Kim, Richard S. Y.
Magnet, Shoshana Amielle
Journals
Science as Culture
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Air Power History
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Journal for the History of Knowledge
Publishers
Duke University Press
New York, City University of
Basic Books
Harvard University Press
MIT Press
New York University Press
Concepts
Surveillance
Technology and government
Technology and law
Technology and society
Borderlands
Communication technology
People
McNamara, Robert Strange
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Modern
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
European Union
Great Britain
Mexico
Canada
Europe
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