Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis

Andersen, Robin; Bergmann, Adrian

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“…Census Bureau, 2013), while many others are second-generation immigrants. In part because the border has been the subject of sensational media coverage and political propaganda (Anderson & Bergmann, 2019; Heyman & Campbell, 2004), El Paso has been the experimental location for harsh immigration policies. For example, from March to November 2017, the El Paso Border Patrol Sector was a testing ground for separating children from their parents prior to this becoming standard practice in mid-2018 (Hope Border Institute, 2018).…”

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Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

Solis

Heckert

2020

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This article explores how experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) combined with immigration-related stress shaped pregnancy and postnatal experiences among two immigrant women in the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, TX. Enactment of U.S. immigration policies was changing rapidly during the period of data collection (2018–2019), generating a heightened sense of immigration-related insecurities for research participants. This context brought attention to how immigration law can exacerbate the potential for adverse health outcomes for pregnant and postnatal women caught in abusive relationships. This article presents the case studies of two women, Sara and Sofi, whose experiences reflected broader patterns documented in a larger qualitative study of the emotional experience of pregnancy among 35 first- and second-generation immigrant women in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Both women’s narratives highlight the ways U.S. immigration laws led to a sense of entrapment in abusive relationships during their pregnancies, which put them at heightened vulnerability. Further, the stress they experienced had the potential to lead to embodied health vulnerabilities. The case studies presented illustrate the ways the law can fuel processes that contribute to health risks, highlighting how U.S. immigration law can function as legal violence.

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Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

Solis

Heckert

2020

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“…That situation, moreover, appears to be on a worsening trajectory (Carling, 2002;Valenta, 2022b). A relevant aspect of this trend is represented by the negative tone prevailing in the public discourse on immigration in the United States and Europe (Andersen and Bergmann, 2019). This, in turn, is related 2…”

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The Role of Diaspora Policies, Ethnic Capital and International Education in Brazilian Migration

Gabellini,

Valenta

2022

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This article delves into the experiences of Brazilian students studying abroad, examining the factors that drive and hinder this type of international migration. Our analysis emphasises the importance of exchange programmes, transnational connections, and diasporic practices. We contend that the desire to emigrate is fostered by relative underdevelopment, but that international and local factors present structural barriers to realising those aspirations. As a result, individuals must seek alternative avenues, with educational exchanges and student mobility programmes emerging as critical resources. We also explore how ethnic and human capital can facilitate mobility for many Brazilians, enabling them to overcome structural barriers that often require them to navigate multiple nation-states. This study thus contributes to the conversation on the connections between ethnic and human capital on the one hand and multinational, stepwise migrations on the other.

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Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey

Bayramoğlu

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Looking back to remember the "arrival" of AIDS in Turkey, this article explores how the spread of the new disease fueled border panic in Turkey from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. Drawing on a rich array of material from the archives of national newspapers and magazines, this article analyzes the media discourse on migrant sex workers from the former USSR and the first HIV-positive men. It shows how both groups were seen as intruders bringing the virus from outside Turkey's borders to its territory. In both cases, I argue, fear of the spread of the virus across borders became entangled with anxieties about the movement of ideas, images, lifeworlds, and meanings relating to sexuality that were discursively constructed as fundamentally alien to Turkish ones. The movement of sexually and racially "other" bodies across borders was seen as a threat to the fragile construed border between "Turkishness" and "foreignness".

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Media, Central American Refugees, and the U.S. Border Crisis

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Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region

The Role of Diaspora Policies, Ethnic Capital and International Education in Brazilian Migration

Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey

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