[Linganth] Ana Muñiz on her book, Borderland Circuitry on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
An unsettlingly timely interview on today's blog -- Shulan Sun and Ana
Muñiz discuss Ana's new book, *Borderland Circuitry: Immigration
Surveillance in the United States and Beyond*.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press Blurb: Political discourse on immigration in the United States has
largely focused on what is most visible, including border walls and
detention centers, while the invisible information systems that undergird
immigration enforcement have garnered less attention. Tracking the
evolution of various surveillance-related systems since the 1980s, *Borderland
Circuitry* investigates how the deployment of this information
infrastructure has shaped immigration enforcement practices. Ana Muñiz
illuminates three phenomena that are becoming increasingly intertwined:
digital surveillance, immigration control, and gang enforcement. Using
ethnography, interviews, and analysis of documents never before seen, Muñiz
uncovers how information-sharing partnerships between local police, state
and federal law enforcement, and foreign partners collide to create
multiple digital borderlands. Diving deep into a select group of
information systems, *Borderland Circuitry *reveals how those with legal
and political power deploy the specter of violent cross-border criminals to
justify intensive surveillance, detention, brutality, deportation, and the
destruction of land for border militarization.
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