RT Book
T1 Borderland circuitry: immigration surveillance in the United States and beyond
A1 Muñiz, Ana 1984-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1787139212
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN JV6483
SN 9780520379480
SN 9780520379497
K1 Immigration enforcement : United States : 21st century
K1 Immigration enforcement : 21st century
K1 Data mining in law enforcement
K1 Data centers : United States
K1 Social Science / Criminology
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
K1 Mexican-American Border Region
K1 USA : Grenzschutz : Grenzregelung : Überwachung : Datensammlung : Migrationspolitik : Data Mining