Caging out, caging in: Building a carceral state at the U.S-Mexico Divide

Border fences have a long history in the United States, and that history is deeply entangled with the rise of the carceral state. As fences along the U.S.-Mexico border grew over the course of the twentieth century, they increasingly restricted the mobility of migrants both as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico divide and once they were within U.S. territory. This article analyzes how fear of being apprehended, arrested, detained, or deported has forced migrants to remain in the shadows; and it argues that as border fences expanded in length and height, they transformed the United States into a massive, carceral state.

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Work Title Caging out, caging in: Building a carceral state at the U.S-Mexico Divide
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  1. Mary E. Mendoza
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  1. Pacific Historical Review
Publication Date February 1, 2019
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2019.88.1.86
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