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dc.contributor.authorCoskan, Mert
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-24T13:39:34Z
dc.date.available2013-01-24T13:39:34Z
dc.date.issued2013-01-24
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/4187
dc.description.abstractLegal provisions in the US have extended the idea of the border to the inside of US territory. Border Patrol Agents confront people in different spaces to inquire about their status. I examine border policing along the northern border of the United States through textual and discourse analysis. This thesis asks: How do border agents exercise power and control the movement of people within 100 miles of the border? In whose interest is the border, the “nation,” secured? The spaces in which these mobile borders are practiced become the sites where “citizens” and “aliens” are produced, reproduced and contested. These border policing practices create the illusion of a “nation” that is secured for “our” interests. However, the interests of these vulnerable groups are not reflected in the immigration policy and along the “border. Therefore the very existence of immigrants and their basic right to be in the US is undermined.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectPolitical geographyen_US
dc.subjectborder patrolen_US
dc.subject"aliens"en_US
dc.subjectUS-Canada borderen_US
dc.subjectborder policingen_US
dc.title“Illegal Aliens” and the Inconspicuous Geographies of US Immigration and Border Policing within 100 Miles of the US-Canada Borderen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameM.A. Geographyen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.embargo.termsNoneen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-08-08T02:18:06Z


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