Globalising cities at the crossroads of migration: Puebla, Tijuana and Monterrey

Marchand, Marianne H.; Ramírez, Adriana Sletza Ortega

doi:10.1080/01436597.2018.1540274

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“…So, again Tijuana needed to accommodate a large group of migrants, similar to what had happened a few years before with a group of ca. 8000 Haitian migrants (Marchand and Ortega Ramírez 2019). And, while it overwhelmed the local authorities and shelters, it also created resentment and xenophobic reactions among some of the Tijuanenses.…”

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The caravanas de migrantes making their way north: problematising the biopolitics of mobilities in Mexico

Marchand

2020

Third World Quarterly

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Since the Trump administration started its 'war on migrants' many of civil society's responses have been oriented to counter the impact of this 'war'. Such responses include the creation of sanctuary cities and providing legal defence to migrants. In Mexico, the actions of the Trump administration have also reverberated among migrant communities and within government circles. Ways of dealing with the challenges posed by the Trump administration range from policies directed at return migrants to providing shelter to Central American migrants in transit, to organising caravanas de migrantes to the Mexico-US border. This paper addresses how these caravanas have become the focus of biopolitical struggles among different authorities, migrant smugglers and civil society organisations. It argues that biopolitics is not just a state-initiated phenomenon, but that non-state actors are also practicing biopolitics.

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The caravanas de migrantes making their way north: problematising the biopolitics of mobilities in Mexico

Marchand

2020

Third World Quarterly

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“…We focus broadly on the FOR in the Mexican context illustrated with examples from the state of Puebla, which is among the top five emigration and remittance receiver states, among the top seven states with a high rate of (voluntary and forced) return migrants and has a high rate of poverty and financial exclusion ( BBVA and CONAPO, 2018 : 79, 128). Puebla has also developed various policies targeting Mexicans living in the US and return migrants, which makes it a particularly interesting site to study the FOR ( Marchand et al, 2017 ; Marchand and Ramírez, 2019 ). The next section presents our conceptual framework, ‘section three’ outlines the FOR in the context of Mexico before analysing its constellation of subjectivities.…”

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‘Cambiando el chip’: The gendered constellation of subjectivities of the financialisation of remittances in Mexico

Kunz

Ramírez

2021

Environ Plan A

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In the wake of the global financial crisis and a context of stagnating development aid, the international community now promotes linking remittances to finance as a development strategy, in what has been termed the ‘financialisation of remittances’ (FOR). This article analyses the ways in which the financialisation of remittance manifests in Mexico in gendered ways, and what this tells us about financialisation and financial subjectivation processes beyond the global North. We find that the financialisation of remittance represents a shift from earlier remittance-based development models whereby remittances become linked to financial inclusion and social welfare agendas and the focus is broadened beyond migrant income to diaspora wealth. Focusing on the governing arrangements of the financialisation of remittance, we propose the concept of ‘constellation of subjectivities’ in order to analyse the interrelated and interacting programmatic subjectivities through which the financialisation of remittance manifests in Mexico. Combining this conceptualisation with interdisciplinary feminist insights on financialisation, we analyse the various intersecting social dynamics that weave through such constellations. The analysis – based on document, interview and observation material – finds that the financialisation of remittance in Mexico creates and governs a gendered constellation of financial subjectivities with three dimensions: migrant men, remittance-receiving women and the constitutive outside of the non-transnational family. While most studies tend to focus on transnational families, we demonstrate that non-transnational families are an integral part of the financialisation of remittance. Our analysis destabilises the notion of the universal financial subject and highlights the importance of broadening our analysis of financialisation to constitutive outsides that often fall off the radar.

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“…Second, cross-cultural differences have also been found in behavioral ratings of ADHD (Arnold et al, 1994; Reid, 1995; Schmitz & Velez, 2003), and noninvariant results have been found for different cultural contexts (Toplak et al, 2012). This would be of special importance in a multicultural environment such as the city of Tijuana, México, which has very heavy immigration from the interior and south of Mexico (and other world regions such as Asia, North America, and Europe; Marchand & Ramírez, 2019; Toledo Sarracino & García-Landa, 2018), and some cities in the United States with a growing Mexican immigrant population (Israel & Batalova, 2020). Finally, it is also important to assess how the scale is scored on a day-to-day basis.…”

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Factor structure, measurement invariance, and scoring practices of the strengths and weaknesses of ADHD–symptoms and normal behavior.

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We investigate the factor structure, concurrent validity, internal consistency, measurement invariance (sex and parents’ geographical/cultural background), and practical scoring practices of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)–Symptoms and Normal Behavior scale (SWAN) in junior high school students. With a sample of 650 parents of Mexican junior high school students (55.84% girls; mean age of 13.15 and SD = 0.97 years) who completed the SWAN scale, a bidirectional instrument, and the Barrios and Matute Questionnaire of ADHD symptoms (BMQ-ADHD), a traditional Mexican unidirectional instrument, we obtained SWAN’ psychometric properties by a series of confirmatory factor analyses. Two and three-correlated factors of the SWAN and bifactor models fitted well to the data. The bifactor model with one general dimension and two specific dimensions (BF 2S) showed most favorable psychometric properties and was invariant regarding sex and cultural background. The analyses of the BF 2S revealed that only the general factor was sufficiently reliable for scoring. Percentiles divided by sex better approximated SWAN averaged-based scores to the general factor derived from the SWAN bifactor model, measuring the trait with acceptable precision for norms development. The study provides evidence that SWAN measures a trait best represented by a reliable general domain, that the average-based SWAN score is closer to the general SWAN trait when the score is segregated by sex, and that it is invariant with respect to sex and cultural background to be reliable in a culturally diverse population.

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Globalising cities at the crossroads of migration: Puebla, Tijuana and Monterrey

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

The caravanas de migrantes making their way north: problematising the biopolitics of mobilities in Mexico

The caravanas de migrantes making their way north: problematising the biopolitics of mobilities in Mexico

‘Cambiando el chip’: The gendered constellation of subjectivities of the financialisation of remittances in Mexico

Factor structure, measurement invariance, and scoring practices of the strengths and weaknesses of ADHD–symptoms and normal behavior.

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