Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance

被引:75
作者
Nunez, Guillermina Gina [1 ]
Heyman, Josiah McC [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas El Paso, Anthropol, El Paso, TX 79968 USA
关键词
Migration; Mobility; Entrapment; Morality; Risk; Networks; US-Mexico Border; Colonias; UNITED-STATES;
D O I
10.17730/humo.66.4.v32mp32167k8l705
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
In processes of entrapment, police and other state agencies impose significant risk to moving around, while people themselves exercise various forms of agency by both limiting themselves and covertly defying movement controls. Recent US immigration and border enforcement policy has entrapped undocumented immigrants, in particular on the United States side of the US-Mexico border region. We explore how to operationalize this "macro" pattern in ethnographic research, making the conceptually and methodologically significant point that political-legal forces are only one among many elements leading to entrapment and immobilization; other factors include transportation constraints, poor health, etc. The concept of "morality of risk" is also introduced to help us understand how and why trapped people would take severe risks to defy immigration policing. Three ethnographic cases are examined, noting the complex mix of movement and barriers found in them. We conclude with the significance of entrapment for applied and basic social science: first, for the analysis of spatial mobility, enclosure, and inequalities of movement; second, for public policy; and third, for the methods and ethics of researching trapped and hidden populations.
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页码:354 / 365
页数:12
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