Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland

Yoku Shaw-Taylor serves as the lead author of this book. He is an Applied Sociologist with a PhD from George Washington University. He was Research Scientist at the NORC, University of Chicago, and an Operations Research Analyst (Contractor) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is the author of Immigration, Assimilation, and Border Security also published by Bernan Press. The other contributors to this volume are all experts in their field. They are affiliated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence: Borders, Trade, and Immigration Institute, a consortium led by the University of Houston and, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence: Coastal Resilience Center, a consortium led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are new findings from researchers who previously worked or currently work at the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or the New York City Health Department. There is also analysis from a consultant previously affiliated the World Customs Organization, and new information from professors or instructors with ties to University of Massachusetts, Tulane University, and Louisiana State University.

Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland adds to the stream of rigorous homeland security research. The book brings conceptual, methodological, and practical advances to the quest for relevance and utility in homeland security scholarship. This book will be of most interest to policymakers and to readers who care whether homeland security is an academic discipline. The chapters are about subjects that have a claim to be at the center of the homeland security project. These topics include immigration, border management, international trade, transnational crime, globalization, resilience, public health, disaster recovery, and cyber security.

• PART I: IMMIGRATION AND BORDER MANAGEMENTChapter 1: The Curious History of U.S. Immigration Enforcement, 1981–2020: A Tale of Institutional Inertia and Administrative and Volatility Chapter 2: Border Management, Immigration and Trade: The ConvergenceChapter 3: Capability Gaps in CBP’s OperationsChapter 4: The Limits of Physical Borders: Transactional Crime and the Underworld of GlobalizationChapter 5: Unauthorized Immigration: Illegal Crossings and Apprehensions at the Southwest Border, and the Border WallChapter 6: The Border as Resource and Problem – Revisiting the Theory of Discordant BorderPART II: THE RESILIENT HOMELANDChapter 7: Who is Prepared? The Resilient CitizenChapter 8: Pandemic Response: The Logistics of COVID-19 Mass VaccinationChapter 9: Public Mistrust of Public Health Authority: A Threat to ResilienceChapter 10: Hurricane Michael: A Case Study for Integrating Colleges and Universities in Community Disaster Recovery to Build ResilienceChapter 11: Top Cyber Security Concerns