Borderland circuitry : immigration surveillance in the United States and beyond / Ana Muñiz.

Author/creator Muñiz, Ana, 1984- author.
Format Book
PublicationOakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Descriptionx, 243 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 22 cm
Subjects
Immigration enforcement--United States. --21st century.
Immigration enforcement--21st century.
Data mining in law enforcement.
Data centers--United States.
Émigration et immigration--Lois. --Application. --États-Unis. --21e siècle.
Émigration et immigration--Lois. --Application. --21e siècle.
Exploration de données (Informatique) dans l'application des lois.
Centres de traitement de l'information--États-Unis.
Mexican-American Border Region.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.

Contents The land gets tangled in walls and circuitry -- You cross a border and the Feds build a database -- California cops become the tip of the spear -- A lawyer watches a wreck unfold -- ICE rigs an algorithm -- We make our own maps -- A border bleeds out -- A hand searches for a root -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological appendix : I demand some documents.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Muñiz, Ana, 1984- Borderland circuitry Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520976764
LCCN 2021061570
ISBN9780520379480 hardcover
ISBN0520379489 hardcover
ISBN9780520379497 paperback
ISBN0520379497 paperback
ISBNelectronic publication

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