Permeable Borders: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States

✍ Scribed by Paul Otto (editor); Susanne Berthier-Foglar (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.S. history, today it is arguably the border that best encapsulates the American experience, as xenophobia, economic inequality, and resurgent nationalism continue to fuel conditions of division and limitation. This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. Together, these essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Historical Border Crossing: National, Ethnic, and Theoretical
Chapter 1 American Indians and US-Canada Transborder Migration Opportunity and Refuge
Chapter 2 Warped Mirrors Shifting Representations and Asymmetrical Constructs on the Border(s) of the American Southwest
Chapter 3 “Dare to Dance Your Own Dance” Transgressing Aesthetic Borders in Early Twentieth-Century American Theatrical Dance
Chapter 4 Border Work The Migration of Los Angeles Japanese Americans from the Manzanar Relocation Center to Father Flanagan’s Boys Town during World War II
Chapter 5 From Geographic to Virtual Borders in New York City From Little Italy to Chinatown
PART II Permeability in Border and Migration Policy
Chapter 6 Realizing Government Ambitions Policing Insiders and Outsiders
Chapter 7 Detention for Deterrence? The Strategic Role of Private Facilities and Offshore Resources in US Migration Management
PART III National Borders, Liminal Spaces, and Permeation
Chapter 8 Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora Cross-Border Relationships and Security Issues
Chapter 9 (Dis)Continuities of the Border Spectacle An Analysis of a Binational Park in San Diego, California
Chapter 10 A Durable Permeation Imagination, Motion, and Differentiation at the Border between Canada and the United States
Afterword: Permeability and the Making and Unmaking of Borders
Index