Description: "This book argues that the U.S.-Mexico border is both a laboratory and an archive that indexes an optical regime and a way of seeing that combines fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey"--
Brief description: Camilla Fojas is Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her most recent books include Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture and Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture
Review Quotes: "As historically enduring and salient as borders and border discourses have been, they remain a crucial topic of study--for their deployment has life and death consequences for millions around the globe. Drawing on a creative combination of Border and Surveillance Studies, Camilla Fojas proposes the concept of 'borderveillance' to encourage us to critically assess the imperial significations and material outcomes of the ongoing struggle of human flow at the Mexico-US border. This original approach expands our understanding of the border while creating a visual archive of racial capitalism at work."-- "Angharad N. Valdivia, author of Latino/as in the Media "