The Borders of America examines the tension between human migration and the diverse formations of border control and immigration and asylum policy that have arisen across the Americas since the start of the twenty-first century. The collection develops a single analytical framework that is hemispheric in scope, encompassing the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and the full extent of Latin America. The contributors offer the concept of a “border regime” as an epistemological and methodological approach that comprehends borders not merely as physical demarcations between state territories and jurisdictions but rather as expansive, uneven, and heterogeneous spaces of constant encounter, exchange, dispute, tension, conflict, and contestation. Presenting detailed empirical research into contemporary intra-regional and transcontinental mobilities across the hemisphere, The Borders of America scrutinizes an array of critical nodes in the larger configuration of the trans-American border regime.
Contributors. Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Tanya Basok, Janneth Clavijo, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech, Roberto Dufraix-Tapia, Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga, Valentina Glockner Fagetti, Luin Goldring, Patricia Landolt, Carolina Moulin, Margarita Luz Núñez Chaim, Juan Ordóñez, Daniel Quinteros, Romina Ramos, Martha Rojas-Wiesner, Fabio Santos, Amarela Varela-Huerta, and Laura Velasco Ortiz
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- Introduction: The Borders of (Our) America / Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias
- 1. Latin American Refugeeships in Canada and the Hemispheric Border Regime / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring
- 2. Mobility Control Regime and Clandestine Practices in the US-Mexico Border / Laura Velasco Ortiz
- 3. Subverting Internal Bordering Practices: “Illegal Legality” in Southern Mexico / Tanya Basok and Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner
- 4. Migrant Caravans and the Border Control Regime in Mexico: The Case of the Fifty-Day Caravan During the COVID Pandemic / Margarita Núñez Chaim, Amarela Varela Huerta, and Valentina Glockner Fagetti
- 5. The Indeterminacy of Transit Through Latin America as Seen from the Colombia-Panama Border / Juan Thomas Ordóñez and Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga
- 6. Illegalized in the Country of “Universal Citizenship” / Soledad Álvarez Velasco
- 7. Border Control, COVID-19, and the Criminalization of Irregularized Migration in Chile / Daniel Quinteros, Romina Ramos, and Roberto Dufraix-Tapia
- 8. The Politics of Hostility in Argentina: Detention, Expulsion, and Border Rejection / Eduardo Domenech
- 9. Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Transformations of Refuge Through the Protection-Control Relationship in the South American Space / Janneth Clavijo
- 10. Logistical Lives, Humanitarian Borders: Managing Populations in South–South Circulations / Carolina Moulin
- 11. “Europe” in “Latin America”: Illegalized Mobilities, Deportable Bodies, and Contested Sovereignties in the French-Brazilian Borderland / Fabio Santos
- 12. The Trans-American Border Regime: Toward a Genealogy / Nicholas De Genova, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias
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