Border Imaginaries and Everyday Living
The geo-economic confluence of prosperity and economic strain are paramount along the USA- Mexico border, known for international trade governed by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other transnational neoliberal accords.
As Bejarano et al. (2012, pp. 32-33) have argued, “The success of neoliberalism is dependent upon the subjugation of place...place is more than the backdrop of social occurrences, but also intersects with oppressive systems of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and in the case of migrants, their nationality and citizenship.” The abject poor are drawn to these zones in search of jobs or to cross the international boundary into the USA. Many migrants who do not succeed at crossing remain working in these zones, leading to a kind of “paralyzing border stagnation” where they are trapped in an unfamiliar place with little or no resources, or they become akin to “transferable bodies displaced and used repeatedly as they travel their migratory route from home to subjugated border region... If caught, they are held or transferred yet again to deportation centers or back across the border to the subjugated region they launched from” (Bejarano et al. 2012, p. 30). The USA-Mexico border constitutes the world's “largest migration corridor” with 13 million international migrants from Mexico residing in the USA (United Nations 2014, p. 20).3
Source:
Harker C., Horschelmann K. (Eds.). Conflict, Violence and Peace. Springer,2017. — 456 p.. 2017
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