Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Governing migrant illegality 1
5. I. Law and criminalization
6. 1. The legal production of mexican/migrant “illegality” 41
7. 2. The crimmigration crisis 59
8. 3. The security myth 77
9. II. Managing borders
10. 4. Constructing a virtual wall 99
11. 5. Spectacle in the desert 115
12. 6. Bare life 129
13. III. Policing the interior
14. 7. The rise and fall of employer sanctions 149
15. 8. Arizona’s SB 1070 165
16. IV. detention and deportation
17. 10. Pursuant to deportation 199
18. 11. “¿Quien sabe? ” 217
19. 12. Exiled by law 233
20. V. Immigrant contestations
21. 13. (RE)Bordering the civic imaginary 253
22. 14. Left out but not shut down 269
23. 15. From border control to border care 285
24. Index 303