[OPE-L] Targeting Immigrants Government, Technology, and Ethics By: JONATHAN XAVIER INDA (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Title: Targeting Immigrants Government, Technology, and Ethics By

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from Blackwell Publishers 2006.

Targeting Immigrants
Government, Technology, and Ethics

By: JONATHAN XAVIER INDA (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Description

This book is concerned with the government of "illegal" immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.
       *       Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about and constructed "illegal" immigration as an ethical problem.
      *       Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
       *       Using an ethnographic approach, draws on primary source materials - including government publications, archival documents, newspapers, and popular magazines.
   *       Studies measures (e.g. Operation Gatekeeper and Operation Hold-the-Line) for reforming the conduct of "illegal" immigrants in order to forestall illicit border crossings.
      *       Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of governmentality.
*       Highlights the role of numbers and statistics in constructing the "illegal" immigrant.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Government and Immigration
Part I: Ethopolitics and the Management of In/security
The Ethos of Responsibility
Making Ethical Subjects
The Government of the Marginal
Racing the Unethical
Part II: Producing "The Illegal," or Making Up Subjects
Government and Numbers
Legislating Illegality
Practices of Enumeration
Surveying Routines
Ethical Territories of Exclusion
After 9/11
Part III: Anti-Citizenship Technologies and the Regulation of the Border
Governing Through Crime
Interlude
Assembling an Anti-Citizenship Technology
Interlude
Securitizing the Border
Interlude
The Aftermath of "Terror"
Interlude
Surfeit of Dead Bodies
Interlude
Dying in Abandonment
Part IV: Iteration
References Cited
Index

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About the Author

Jonathan Xavier Inda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.