Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Borderland spaces, and the people who are navigating the violence of bordering processes within them, come alive in the pages of this worthwhile book." * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *
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Borderland Circuitry’s strength is in Muñiz’s approach to detail and carefulness. . . . The book speaks to scholars and students interested in migration studies, digital surveillance studies, and ethnographical research on border and gang databases in the United States." * Border Criminologies *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
1. The Land Gets Tangled in Walls and Circuitry
2. You Cross a Border and the Feds Build a Database
3. California Cops Become the Tip of the Spear
4. A Lawyer Watches a Wreck Unfold
5. ICE Rigs an Algorithm
6. We Make Our Own Maps
7. A Border Bleeds Out
8. A Hand Searches for a Root
Acknowledgments
Methodological Appendix: I Demand
Some Documents
Acronyms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
