Dal Trattato di Guadalupe-Hidalgo al Secure Fence Act. Politiche statunitensi di controllo del confine fra Messico e Stati Uniti

• Matteo Pretelli ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Trieste

     University of Trieste

     Trieste, Italia

     
• Localización: Memoria e ricerca, ISSN 1127-0195, ISSN-e 1972-523X, Nº 39 (gennaio-aprile), 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Muri in età contemporanea), págs. 123-137
• Idioma: italiano
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  • From the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty to the Secure Fence Act. Border United States-Mexico control politics
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• Resumen

  • This essay aims to analyze U.S. policies of southern border enforcement in the 19th- and 20th-centuries, which targeted illegal crossings from Mexico onto American soil. In 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act that endorsed the costruction of a fence along 700 of the 2,000 mile long southern international boundary. This border enforcement is the aftermath of policies that – especially from the 1980s onwards – aim to respond to the increasing fear in U.S. public opinion relating to the presence of unauthorized migrants in the United States