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Frontiers of Fear : Immigration and Insecurity in the United States.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801463914
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frontiers of FearDDC classification:
  • 325.73
LOC classification:
  • JV6483
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Frontiers of Fear -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Immigration-Security Nexus -- Part I: The Framing of Immigrationas a Security Issue -- 1. Newcomers, Old Threats, and Current Concerns -- 2. Securitization before 9/11 -- 3. Securitization after 9/11 -- Part II: The Dynamics of Policy Failure -- 4. Border Escalation as a Policy Failure -- 5. The Security/Insecurity Spiral -- 6. Radicalization in the West -- Part III: Why Do Failed Policies Persist? -- 7. Emigration, Development, and (In)security -- 8. Immigration, Economic Interests, and Politics -- Conclusion: Threats to Western Democracy -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Frontiers of Fear comparatively analyzes the restrictive immigration policies commonly framed as a security issue implemented on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1990s.
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Intro -- Frontiers of Fear -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Immigration-Security Nexus -- Part I: The Framing of Immigrationas a Security Issue -- 1. Newcomers, Old Threats, and Current Concerns -- 2. Securitization before 9/11 -- 3. Securitization after 9/11 -- Part II: The Dynamics of Policy Failure -- 4. Border Escalation as a Policy Failure -- 5. The Security/Insecurity Spiral -- 6. Radicalization in the West -- Part III: Why Do Failed Policies Persist? -- 7. Emigration, Development, and (In)security -- 8. Immigration, Economic Interests, and Politics -- Conclusion: Threats to Western Democracy -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

Frontiers of Fear comparatively analyzes the restrictive immigration policies commonly framed as a security issue implemented on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1990s.

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