Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance

Núñez, Guillermina Gina; Heyman, Josiah McC.

doi:10.17730/humo.66.4.v32mp32167k8l705

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“…Thus, the idea of the border can be extended to include the lines that delineate movement and membership both between and within nations (see Sharma 2006). Núñez and Heyman (2007) note that ethnographic attempts to understand barriers to movement and operationalize the concepts of "mobility and enclosure" must also consider the agency of migrants and their attempts to overcome these barriers for reasons they deem important. As Barber argues in her analysis of the "Janus (double-faced) effect," structural disempowerment does not preclude "individual agency and its empowering possibilities" (2002: 56).…”

Section: Gated Movements In a Gated Globementioning

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“…As Barber argues in her analysis of the "Janus (double-faced) effect," structural disempowerment does not preclude "individual agency and its empowering possibilities" (2002: 56). With these considerations in mind, this article demonstrates ways in which migrants use networks, creativity, and in some cases false identities-strategies mediated by a "morality of risk" (Núñez and Heyman 2007)in order to circumvent the limitations imposed by these rigid state selection processes to promote their own interests. Findings are based on over three years of ethnographic research in Mexico,Canada,and Jamaica.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”

McLaughlin

2010

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This article analyzes the ideology and practice of multi-unit competition that pervades neoliberal subjectivities and produces the "ideal" flexible worker within contemporary global capitalism. It demonstrates how state and capitalist interests converge to influence the selection of the ideal transnational migrant worker, how prospective migrants adapt to these expectations, and the consequences of such enactments, particularly for migrants, but also for the societies in which they live and work. Multiple levels of actors-employers, state bureaucrats, and migrants themselves-collude in producing the flexible, subaltern citizen, which includes constructions and relations of class, race, gender, and nationality/ citizenship. The case study focuses on Mexican and Jamaican participants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, a managed migration program that legally employs circular migrant farmworkers from Mexico and several Englishspeaking Caribbean countries in Canadian agriculture.

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Section: Gated Movements In a Gated Globementioning

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Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”

McLaughlin

2010

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“…First, literature based on qualitative, historical, and meta-theoretical interpretations of border enforcement procedures has focused on the human and social costs of migration, especially migrant deaths in the desert (Andreas 2000;Nevins 2002;Nevins and Aizeki 2008;Heyman 2008;Martinez, Cantor, and Ewing 2014). The second, more recent body of literature has developed around deportation, especially interpreting the potential deportability of both authorized and unauthorized immigrants as a form of social control (Coleman 2007(Coleman , 2009Núñez and Heyman 2007;Varsanyi 2008;De Genova and Peutz 2010;Varsanyi 2010;Coleman and Kocher 2011).…”

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In Harm’s Way: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement Programs and Security on the US-Mexico Border

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Whiteford

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“…Accompanying these legislative tactics has been an unrelenting campaign of locally improvised forms of intensified state-, countyand municipal-level immigration enforcement (cf. Coleman, 2007;Nú ñ ez and Heyman, 2007;Varsanyi, 2008). An unprecedented profusion of local police departments, furthermore, are now being directly deployed to enforce immigration violations -a distinctly post- September 11, 2001 phenomenon.…”

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Conflicts of mobility, and the mobility of conflict: Rightlessness, presence, subjectivity, freedom

Genova

2009

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With the ascendancy in the United States of the Homeland Security State, a peculiar 'war against terrorism' has been persistently waged against migrant non-citizens as its special targets. With utter rightlessness increasingly enforced as a defining horizon for migrants, the unprecedented upsurge of protest that took the country by storm in 2006, nonetheless, refigured the agonistic notion of 'immigrants' rights' as a prominent feature of political debate. If the state and capital work assiduously to render migrant labour a tractable object, therefore, the robust defiance of migrant workers (both the undocumented and guestworkers) audaciously reaffirms the primacy of labour as subject. Indeed, migrant workers have asserted their autonomy and prerogative through insubordinate acts calling attention to the mere corporeal fact of their deportable presence. Thus, the insurgent presence of migrant bodies emerges as a palpably corporeal and spatial form of subjectivity, and all the substantive social relationality that it manifests.

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Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance

Cited by 137 publications

References 6 publications

Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”

Classifying the “ideal migrant worker”

In Harm’s Way: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement Programs and Security on the US-Mexico Border

Conflicts of mobility, and the mobility of conflict: Rightlessness, presence, subjectivity, freedom

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