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Why Interdiction? Immigration Control at the United States-Mexico Border

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HEYMAN J. MCC. (1999) Why interdiction? Immigration control at the United States-Mexico border, Reg. Studies 33 , 619-630. International borders are open to some movements and forbid others. These roles appear to be opposites, with intensified cross-border transactions accompanied by a heightened interdiction of unauthorized immigrants and narcotics. This is an outcome of the contradictory political interests and ideas which promote and oppose globalization. These political processes not only shape general policies, but are expressed in the specific tasks and technologies applied by border control agencies. They are revealed through detailed ethnographic fieldwork on US agencies on the Mexican border, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), its Border Patrol and Inspection branches, the US Customs and the military. HEYMAN J. MCC. (1999) Pourquoi l'interdiction de sejour?: le controle de l'immigration a la frontiere entre les Etats Unis et la Mexique, Reg. Studies 33 , 619-630. A la frontiere, la circulation est tantot libre, tantot interdite. Ces deux possibilites semblent etre opposees, etant donne l'intensification des operations trans front alieres, conjointement avec l'interdiction renforcee des sans-papiers et des stupefiants. Ceci est le resultat des interets et des idees politiques contradictoires en faveur de et contre la mondialisation. Ces processuspolitiques ne font queformuler les politiques generales, mais s'expriment aussi dans les taches et les technologies specifiques appliquees par les forces de l'ordre a la frontiere. Ils se font jour a partir des etudes ethnographiques des forces de l'ordre americaines a la frontiere mexicaine, y compris les services de l'immigration et de la naturalisation, ses divisions de la surveillance et du controle, la douane, et l'armee. HEYMAN J. MCC. (1999)Warum Verbote? Einwanderungskontrolle an der Grenze zwischen Mexiko und den Vereinigten Staaten, Reg Studies 33 , 619-630. Internationale Grenzen gestatten gewisse Uberschreitungen, wahrend sie andere verbieten. Sie scheinen entgegengesetzte Rollen zu spielen, wobei verstarkte grenzuberschreitende Transaktionen von scharferen Verboten nicht genehnigter Einwanderung und unerlaubter Einfuhr von Rauschgiften begleitet zu sein scheinen. Dies ist ein Ergebnis widerspruchlicher politischer Interessen und Ideen, welche sich fur Globalisation einsetzen und widersetzen. Diese politischen Vorgange pragen sich auch in spezifischen Aufgaben und Technologien aus, die von Grenzkontrollstellen angewandt werden. Diese Befunde sind das Ergebnis ins einzelne gehender ethnografischer Feldforschung, die sich mit Grenzkonstrollen der Vereinigten Staaten an der mexikanischen Grenze beschaftigen, einschliesslich zustandiger Stellen fur Einwanderung und Einburgerung (Immigration & Naturalisation Service INS), den Grenzkontroll-und Inspektionszweigen, den Zollbehorden der USA und dem Militar.

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  • Josiah McC. Heyman, 1999. "Why Interdiction? Immigration Control at the United States-Mexico Border," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(7), pages 619-630.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:33:y:1999:i:7:p:619-630
    DOI: 10.1080/00343409950078666
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    1. Silvia Angeloni & Francesco Maria Spano, 2018. "Asylum Seekers in Europe: Issues and Solutions," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 473-495, May.
    2. James Anderson & Liam O'Dowd, 1999. "Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality: Contradictory Meanings, Changing Significance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(7), pages 593-604.

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