The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478033061 ISBN 13: 9781478033066

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The Borders of America examines the tension between human migration and the diverse formations of border control and immigration and asylum policy that have arisen across the Americas since the start of the twenty-first century. The collection develops a single analytical framework that is hemispheric in scope, encompassing the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and the full extent of Latin America. The contributors offer the concept of a “border regime” as an epistemological and methodological approach that comprehends borders not merely as physical demarcations between state territories and jurisdictions but rather as expansive, uneven, and heterogeneous spaces of constant encounter, exchange, dispute, tension, conflict, and contestation. Presenting detailed empirical research into contemporary intra-regional and transcontinental mobilities across the hemisphere, The Borders of America scrutinizes an array of critical nodes in the larger configuration of the trans-American border regime.

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About the Authors

Soledad Álvarez Velasco is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Nicholas De Genova is Professor of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston.

Gustavo Dias is Professor of Sociology at the State University of Montes Claros, Brazil. Eduardo Domenech is Research Professor at the National University of Cordoba and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478033061
• ISBN 13: 9781478033066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Álvarez Velasco Soledad, De Genova Nicholas, Dias Gustavo, Domenech Eduardo