On the Border: Discursive and Legal Foundations of Post-9/11 U.S. Immigration Enforcement
by Labove, Joshua Matthew, M.A.L.S., DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 2011, 93 pages; 1506089

Abstract:

This work reviews and builds upon the political geographies produced in the years following 9/11 which offer major theoretical insights into how the global war on terror represents a drastic (re)mapping of areas of US influence (Gregory 2004, Cowen and Gilbert 2008, Puar 2007). By considering the way the dominant scholarship on Homeland Security and the global war on terror have sought to draw linkages to the work of Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt, this theoretical and empirical framework serves as the entry point for my analysis. I argue that immigrant mobility is determined both by discourses that (1) reframe the undocumented individual as criminal (2) employ a series of laws that create 'new borders' in the name of security.

 
AdvisersJennifer Fluri; Carol Bohmer; Donald E. Pease
SchoolDARTMOUTH COLLEGE
SourceMAI/ 50-04, p. , Feb 2012
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsGeography; Law; Political Science
Publication Number1506089
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