Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions

Delgado, Amalia E. Campos; Ortiz, Olga Odgers

doi:10.21670/ref.2012.26.a01

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“…Estas características permiten que las regiones fronterizas desnuden las contradicciones entre los flujos y las barreras del mundo moderno: la movilidad fronteriza no se produjo por el debilitamiento de las fronteras, sino a pesar de su reforzamiento (…) la habilidad de "ser móvil" es un recurso crítico en las regiones fronterizas (…). (Campos & Odgers, 2012) En este contexto, diversas prácticas, culturas y normatividades, con frecuencia concebidas como desintegradas, se entretejen y generan relaciones de diferenciación social y de poder. Aunque dicho poder no está en posesión absoluta de agentes aduanales o gubernamentales en Estados Unidos, estos ejercen un grado importante de control, el cual se deja ver de forma más clara en el marco de las restricciones en torno a la pandemia.…”

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Dimensiones de género ante el COVID-19: narrativas de mujeres transfronterizas en el contexto Mexicali-Caléxico

Martínez

Contreras²

2021

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La pandemia ha tenido implicaciones a distintos niveles. Aquí se muestra el impacto en mujeres transfronterizas que vieron afectada su vida laboral, la lucha por sus derechos y sus labores como cuidadoras. Se subraya la intrínseca articulación entre las relaciones económicas y sociales de pobladores de ambos lados de la frontera, las dimensiones de género que afectan a las mujeres en contextos transfronterizos y la diferenciación social que se genera entre quienes poseen un tipo de documento u otro a partir del cierre parcial de la frontera. El análisis se basa en casos etnográficos (2019-2020) elegidos entre una muestra más amplia para dar cuenta de una gama de mujeres que han logrado avances en su proceso de autonomía y empoderamiento, pero se ven vulneradas ante el cierre de la frontera.

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Dimensiones de género ante el COVID-19: narrativas de mujeres transfronterizas en el contexto Mexicali-Caléxico

Martínez

Contreras²

2021

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“…Sheller (: 4), for example, notes how ‘walls, borders, check‐points and gated zones are crucial to the new mobility regimes that produce the securitized corridors, cocoons and bubbles through which certain “global” flows travel, even as they evict, splinter, or slow other flows’. Put more simply, ‘the border can be a bridge, a wall, or both at once, depending on a person's ability to cross it’ (Campos Delgado & Odgers Ortiz, : 10).…”

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“…So in part, border management and dynamics are a question of scales of mobility. As Campos Delgado and Odgers Ortiz () argue, where anti‐movement border policy dominates, parallel processes are at play: first, at a macro‐scale each nation decides which people possess the right to move across the border, and which people do not (see also Cresswell, ), while the micro‐scale is ‘determined by the relationship between actors on either side of the border and the creation of codes based on their everyday activities. Thus, border antimobility becomes blurred when faced with the local reality’ (Campos Delgado & Odgers Ortiz, : 12).…”

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Towards a theory of the discordant border

Walker

Winton

2017

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Borders are often portrayed in stark terms, perhaps as national-scale threats, or as sites of suffering, or conversely as hosts to socio-cultural symbiosis. Yet borders are many things all at once. In this paper, we use the comparative context of the US-Mexico border and the Mexico-Guatemala border to critique what we call the 'border as hegemony', a borderscape constructed through obstructions, punitive policing and reinforcing the limits of state control. Instead, we propose a model of the 'border as discord'. In our heuristic framework, diverse mobilities are embraced, interests of borderlanders are acknowledged and prioritized, and borders are interpreted not as a security threat but as a resource for change.

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“…The Mexico-Guatemala border is at a key geographic position as a gateway for migration into Mexico and up to the United States [23][24][25]. Additionally, everyday commuters, seasonal agricultural workers, and truck drivers converge in this region [26][27][28].…”

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Migration and Mobility: Correlates of Recent HIV Testing Among Substance Using Female Sex Workers at the Mexico–Guatemala Border

Rocha-Jiménez

Morales-Miranda²,

Fernández-Casanueva

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AIDS Behav

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The goal of this paper is to determine the association between traveling to engage in sex work in another country and recent access to HIV testing among substance-using female sex workers (FSWs) in the Mexico–Guatemala border region. From 2012 to 2015, through modified time-location sampling and peer referral, 255 FSWs were recruited at Mexico’s southern border. Participants completed questionnaires on sociodemographics, migration and mobility experiences, work environment factors, and substance use. A conceptual framework, as depicted by a directed acyclic graph (DAG), guided our analysis. Crude and adjusted logistic regression models were used to evaluate the relationships between mobility experiences and HIV testing in the past year. Overall HIV testing was low (41%); after considering relevant covariates (i.e., interaction with health services and organizations, and sex work characteristics) traveling to engage in sex work in another country was found to be positively associated with HIV testing in the past year. Future efforts need to consider voluntary and non-stigmatizing prevention HIV services and focus on reaching out to less mobile women.

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Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Dimensiones de género ante el COVID-19: narrativas de mujeres transfronterizas en el contexto Mexicali-Caléxico

Dimensiones de género ante el COVID-19: narrativas de mujeres transfronterizas en el contexto Mexicali-Caléxico

Towards a theory of the discordant border

Migration and Mobility: Correlates of Recent HIV Testing Among Substance Using Female Sex Workers at the Mexico–Guatemala Border

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