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Contributing Institution:
Chicano Studies Research Center Library
Title: Kelly Lytle Hernandez Collection of Border Patrol Research Papers
Creator:
Hernandez, Kelly Lytle
Identifier/Call Number: 112
Physical Description:
8 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1907-1990
Abstract: This collection of papers represents the research material Kelly Lytle Hernandez used for her book:
MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010). The book is a history and analysis of the U.S. Border Patrol and how it polices unsanctioned
immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Physical Location: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library
and Archive for paging information.
Language of Material:
English
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Open for research.
Collection donated to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Deed on file at the CSRC Archive office.
The collection is arrranged in tthe following series:
- Series 1. Reports, statistics, and internal documents
- Series 2. Border Patrol complaints
- Series 3. Correspondence and memos
- Series 4. Agricultural material
- Series 5. Smuggling
- Series 6. Northern border
- Series 7. Operation Wetback
- Series 8. Surveys
Kelly Lytle Hernandez is associate professor in the UCLA Department of History and Associate Co-Director of the National Center
for History in the Schools. Her research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration upon race, migration,
and police and prison systems in the American West and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her book,
MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010) is the first book to tell the story of how and why the U.S. Border Patrol concentrates
its resources upon policing unsanctioned immigration across the U.S>-Mexico border despite the many possible targets and strategies
of U.S. migration control. Her current research focuses upon exploring the social world of incarceration in Los Angeles between
1876 and 1965.
[Identification of item], Kelly Lytle Hernandez Collection of Border Patrol Research Papers, 112, Chicano Studies Research
Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processed by the CSRC in 2010. Finding aid edited by Jason Lowder under the direction of Doug Johnson in 2021. The editing
was done during the COVID-19 pandemic so there was no physical access to the materials.
The collection consists of research materials gathered for Kelly Lytle Hernandez's book
MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. It consists mostly of Border Patrol interior documents including reports, statistics, correspondence, and surveys. The material
is almost entirely photocopies.
These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user
must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to infringement of copyright and publication
rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Border patrols
Immigration enforcement
Imprisonment
Mexico
Poverty
Police brutality
U.S. Border Patrol