RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Caging Out, Caging In:
JF Pacific Historical Review
FD University of California Press
SP 86
OP 109
DO 10.1525/phr.2019.88.1.86
VO 88
IS 1
A1 Mendoza, Mary E.
YR 2019
UL http://phr.ucpress.edu/content/88/1/86.abstract
AB 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.