Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide

By Michael J. Dear

Book Overview

When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019023525X
• ISBN13: 9780190235253
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"