Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the Us-Mexico Divide

Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the Us-Mexico Divide

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Author/Contributor(s): Dear, Michael
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 11/17/2015
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.