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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	JV6453 .E88 2009		AVAILABLE

Author	Ettinger, Patrick W.
Title	Imaginary lines : border enforcement and the origins of undocumented immigration, 1882-1930 / Patrick Ettinger.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	317698731
ISBN	9780292721180 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0292721188 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publisher	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Description	xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Immigration enforcement -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Noncitizens -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Noncitizens -- Government policy -- United States.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
	Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
	Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
	Illegal immigration.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The menaces without : immigrant aliens and the origins of immigration restrictions -- Diverted streams : discovering a permeable border, 1882-1891 -- Drawing the lines : blueprints for immigration enforcement on the borders, 1891-1910 -- Erasing the lines : immigrant ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1895-1910 -- Northward bound : Mexican immigrants, migrants, and refugees at the border, 1900-1921 -- The sisyphean task : origins of the modern border -- An imaginary line : change and continuity on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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