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Mujeres En El Cruce: Remapping Border Security Through Migrant Mobility, Anna O. Oleary
Mujeres En El Cruce: Remapping Border Security Through Migrant Mobility, Anna O. Oleary
Anna Ochoa OLeary
In this article I discuss some of the findings of my study of the encounter between female migrants and immigration enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border. An objective of the research was to ascertain a more accurate picture of women temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes, immigration enforcement and transnational mobility. Of the many issues that have emerged from this research, family separation is most palpable. This suggests a deeply entrenched economic relationship between family separation and measures to better secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Indeed, women’s accounts of crossing into the U.S. without authorization, as one of …
Close Encounters Of The Deadly Kind: Gender, Migration, And Border (In)Security, Anna O. Oleary
Close Encounters Of The Deadly Kind: Gender, Migration, And Border (In)Security, Anna O. Oleary
Anna Ochoa OLeary
In this article I discuss some of the findings of my study of migrant women temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: those posed by border enforcement measures and those posed by transnational mobility. A pressing issue that emerged from this research was how close women come to encountering death as they skirt around the border wall to cross without authorization into the U.S. Their testimonies shed light on how the intersection of contradictory processes contributes to a humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border in which the likelihood of death is increasingly present.