[Border Policing] is an excellent updated introduction to borderlands studies of the region. Readers will find that the authors, based primarily in the discipline of history, make the volume accessible to academic and nonacademic audiences alike as they deftly connect the themes over time...The contributions of this volume are timely.
— Gender, Place & Culture
A volume such as this one could not be more timely...One cannot read through the fine essays in this collection without encountering fascinating historical examples of contemporary border realities and follies. Everything old is indeed new again along the nation's frontiers...Highly recommended.
— CHOICE
The framing of 'crisis' has been a recurring feature of border policing in U.S. history since at least the early nineteenth century. This much is deftly and effectively argued in [Border Policing]...the book aptly shows the partial, incomplete, and contingent nature of border policing itself...Scholars of Texas history would do well to engage this book for its range of case studies grappling with, among other things, transborder political collaboration (chapter 2), the policing of Mexican identity (chapter 4), vigilantism (chapter 7), peyotism (chapter 8), and the policing of smuggling and gender roles (chapter 9).
— Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Border Policing is...one of the best of a small but growing number of anthologies that put the histories of US-Mexico and US-Canada borderlands in conversation...this is an exceptionally well-organized and thoughtfully arranged anthology. Every essay can be grouped with at least two or three others either thematically, chronologically, or geographically, which makes it an excellent teaching resource for courses about nationalism, borderlands, or policing. The amount of fresh scholarship and interpretations means this collection is also pushing the field forward in distinct ways.
— H-Net Reviews
Border Policing presents the story of border control from the perspective of the borderlands. The authors offer rigorous and insightful contributions on 'the experiences of borderlands residents.' … This focus brings to light important experiences too-long hidden and ignored.
— Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
[Border Policing] is important, if for no other reason than our need to know more about how these borders became the complex, contentious zones they are today...The empirical richness of the case studies is impressive...the volume is a great resource for scholars and students of borders and security issues alike.
— Journal of Strategic Security
Temporally and spatially expansive...Border Policing is an impressive collection of essays on enforcement and invasion in the North American borderlands.
— Journal of Arizona History
This is a truly fascinating collection and a terrific contribution to borderland studies in general and the study of border policing in particular. Though there is a considerable literature on US-Mexico border policing and a smaller literature on US-Canada border policing, only a handful of studies have attempted to bring them together. Border Policing provides a much-needed corrective.
— Peter Andreas, Brown University, author of Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Border Policing offers an insightful look at the regulation of the movement of people and goods across national divides. Together, the essays assembled by Holly Karibo and George Díaz offer a connective approach to the US-Mexico, US-Canada, and Indigenous borderlands, as well as the differing regions within. Spanning the early nineteenth century to the present, this collection of case studies looks to the past to understand contemporary approaches to border enforcement and the development of an intensified security apparatus. It also examines the ways in which border peoples have contested policies of enforcement. This anthology is a valuable and timely contribution to borderland studies.
— Dominique Brégent-Heald, Memorial University of Newfoundland, author of Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era
An intelligent and engaging collection of mostly historical scholarship on the often nettlesome challenges arising along the two international borders that trisect North America...despite this volume’s geographic, topical, and chronological range, the essays in Border Policing work together nicely...Borderlands scholars across disciplinary boundaries will find this volume rewarding.
— American Historical Review
Border Policing is an important collection of scholarship. Its most exciting and innovative sections center on Indigenous sovereignty, settler colonialism, and colonial border policies. Cohesively, this volume demonstrates that borders have historically been both permeable and policed.
— Journal of American History
