The borders of America : migration, control, and resistance across Latin America and the Caribbean / Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Álvarez, Soledad (Álvarez Velasco), editor.

De Genova, Nicholas, editor.

Dias, Gustavo, 1980- editor.

Domenech, Eduardo E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Border security--America.

Border security.

Refugees--Government policy.

Refugees.

America--Emigration and immigration--History--21st century.

America.

America--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

America--Boundaries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Other Title:

Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Primarily focusing on the first two decades of the twenty-first century, The Borders of America examines the tension between human migration and refugee movements, on the one hand, and the multiple formations of border control and immigration and asylum policy, on the other. The collection develops a single analytical framework that is hemispheric in scope, encompassing the United States and Canada with the Caribbean and the full extent of Latin America. Building on work in critical migration and border studies, the contributors offer the concept of the "border regime" as an epistemological, conceptual, and methodological approach that conceives of 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. The essays present detailed empirical research into contemporary intra-regional and transcontinental mobilities across borders and scrutinize an array of critical nodes in the larger configuration of the trans-American border regime"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Latin American refugeeships in Canada and the hemispheric border regime / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring

Mobility control regime and clandestine practices in the US-Mexico Border / Laura Velasco Ortiz

Subverting internal bordering practices : "illegal legality" in southern Mexico / Tanya Basok and Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner

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

The indeterminacy of transit through Latin America as seen from the Colombia-Panama border / Juan Thomas Ordóñez and Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga

Illegalized in the country of "universal citizenship" / Soledad Álvarez Velasco

Border control, COVID-19, and the criminalization of irregularized migration in Chile / Daniel Quinteros, Romina Ramos, and Roberto Dufraix

The politics of hostility in Argentina : detention, expulsion, and border rejection / Eduardo Domenech

Wolf in sheep's clothing : transformations of refuge through the protection-control relationship in the South American space / Janneth Clavijo

Logistical lives, humanitarian borders : managing populations in south-south circulations / Carolina Moulin

Contested sovereignties in the French-Brazilian borderland / Fabio Santos

The trans-American border regime : toward a genealogy / Nicholas De Genova, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Eduardo Domenech, and Gustavo Dias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Borders of America

ISBN:

9781478061809

1-4780-6180-4

OCLC:

1565029473