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The Politics Of Temporary Protection Schemes: The Role Of Mexico’S Tvrh In Reproducing Precarity Among Central American Migrants, Carla Angulo-Pasel
The Politics Of Temporary Protection Schemes: The Role Of Mexico’S Tvrh In Reproducing Precarity Among Central American Migrants, Carla Angulo-Pasel
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Using Mexico’s Tarjeta de Visitante por Razones Humanitarias (TVRH) as a primary case study, this article examines how states can use temporary protection schemes as border security measures while claiming to provide protection. Although the TVRH offers a legal pathway and status to move within Mexico, it equally restricts certain rights due to its temporary nature. It becomes a form of differential inclusion by which the state has the right to be able to “exclude and define the limits” of a particular population but also claim inclusion on humanitarian grounds. Despite the claim of protecting migrants, the application of this …
The Categorized And Invisible: The Effects Of The ‘Border’ On Women Migrant Transit Flows In Mexico, Carla Angulo-Pasel
The Categorized And Invisible: The Effects Of The ‘Border’ On Women Migrant Transit Flows In Mexico, Carla Angulo-Pasel
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
In an increasingly globalized world, border control is continuously changing. Nation-states grapple with ‘migration management’ and maintain secure borders against ‘illegal’ flows. In Mexico, borders are elusive; internal and external security is blurred, and policies create legal categories of people whether it is a ‘trusted’ tourist or an ‘unauthorized’ migrant. For the ‘unauthorized’ Central American woman migrant trying to achieve safe passage to the United States (U.S.), the ‘border’ is no longer only a physical line to be crossed but a category placed on an individual body, which exists throughout her migration journey producing vulnerability as soon as the Mexico–Guatemala …
Le Rôle Du Programme Des Travailleurs Agricoles Saisonniers (Ptas) Dans La Vulnérabilisation Des Travailleurs Migrants Au Canada, Cindy Gagnon, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Le Rôle Du Programme Des Travailleurs Agricoles Saisonniers (Ptas) Dans La Vulnérabilisation Des Travailleurs Migrants Au Canada, Cindy Gagnon, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Every year, over 25,000 people from Mexico and the Caribbean migrate to Canada through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) to work on a Canadian farm. To what extent does the SAWP, as an institution, impact the vulnerability of migrant agricultural workers? The insights and explanations provided by neo-institutional theory's three streams help to better account for the complexity of the economic and socio-historical SAWP-generated factors that affect the situation of migrant workers. It is shown that this program has created and continues to perpetuate a context in which it is difficult for migrant workers to have control over their …