Border Games - Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 2nd Edition

Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 2nd Edition
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Peter Andreas | 2000 | ISBN: 0801437962 | English | 176 pages | ePUB | 1 MB

Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy

The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activity to an intensive campaign focusing on drugs and migrant labor. Yet the unprecedented buildup of border policing has taken place in an era otherwise defined by the opening of the border, most notably through NAFTA. This contrast creates a borderless economy with a barricaded border.