Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics

This book is concerned with the government of “illegal” immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.

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• Examines how various authorities have created knowledge about and constructed “illegal” immigration as an ethical problem.
  
• Analyzes the tactics that have been deployed to govern immigration, particularly at the US-Mexico border.
  
• Using an ethno...