Border security
By: James R. Phelps, Jeffrey Dailey, Monica Koenigsberg
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781611631715
Subjects: Border security; Emigration and immigration; Government policy; Smuggling; Prevention; Human trafficking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Author biographies; title: Acknowledgements; title: Forward; title: Defining borders; title: Barriers, boundaries, and borders; title: Endnotes; title: Border security in history; title: Border security agency operations; title: U.S. border security agencies before the advent of Homeland Security; title: U.S. border security agencies after the advent of Homeland Security; title: Physical border security; title: Maritime border security; title: Border security and transnational crime; title: Trafficking : contraband, smuggling and the law; title: People movers : human trafficking and population migrations; title: Borders, economic interdependence, and internet crime; title: Transportation security; title: U.S. border security today; title: The U.S. - Mexico border; title: The U.S. - Canadian border; title: The future of borders and boundaries in the modern world; title: Index.