Amalia Campos-Delgado
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amalia Campos-Delgado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Campos-Delgado |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPOS-DELGADO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1458-1243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Feeding migrants to cultivate a moral self: An analysis of food relief in U.S. and Mexican migration control
Criminal Justice: Maatschappelijk effectieve strafrechtspleging 2023-2029
Euphemistic Rhetoric and Dysphemistic Practices: Governing Migration in Mexico
This paper analyses Mexico’s governance of migration and its geopolitical moral dilemma: an enthusiastic champion for migrants’ human rights in the international sphere and a tough migration control enforcer. I consider this seemingly ambivalent and contradictory approach through the lens of euphemisms and dysphemisms, more specifically by analysing the use of euphemistic rhetoric and dysphemistic practices in the governance of migration. Through…
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention
By focusing on the externalisation of US bordering into Mexico, we consider the institutional setting that both limits and channels gestures of care and empathy in migrant detention. Working within a framework that highlights the connections between the global and the intimate, and by proposing to read these connections as they unfold into an intimate geopolitics of humanitarian borderwork, we unpack the effects of Mexico’s recent shift towards h…
Research Handbook on Irregular Migration
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1350-2000
Abnormal bordering: Control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres
Migrant detention in Mexico, as a cornerstone of the Mexican Transit Control Regime, is intrinsically related to US migration control. Drawing on Katja Franko Aas’s ‘border penality’ and ‘abnormal justice’ conceptualizations, this paper argues that Transit Control Regimes are an abnormal bordering and the outcome of two trends of the geographies of migration control: reverberation and distancing. To examine how this abnormal bordering is enforced…
Emotional geographies of irregular transmigrants’ journeys
Migrants’ journeys involve geopolitical, corporeal, and emotional dimensions. Yet, emotions, which are fundamental to understand the migrant experience, are usually overlooked. Following the ‘emotional geographies’ approach, this article analyses the spatial contextualisation of the affective and emotional experiences of irregular migrants in transit. Cognitive mapping methodology is proposed as a means to address the spatial and subjective dimen…
Counter-mapping migration: Irregular Migrants' Stories Through Cognitive Mapping
Map-making has played a crucial role in the politics of bordering and ordering. Irregular migrants challenge these politics of confinement on a regular basis; despite this, or perhaps precisely because of it, their stories are hidden in state-centric discourses. Through a counter-mapping approach, this paper focuses on our understanding of how irregular migrants experience their journey. Specifically, an analysis of cognitive maps created by Cent…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Irregular Transmigrants’ Journeys and Mental Mapping Methodology
The development of border clusters and transit control regimes aiming to detain irregular migrants before they reach their destination countries is constructed upon a multidimensional geopolitical narrative driven by border security agreements. The Mexican Transit Control Regime illustrates that 16 years of trying to control migration in transit to the United States has not reduced it but has only succeeded in pushing migrants into dangerous rout…
Saints and Virgins: Religious Pluralism in the City of Tijuana
A double referent connoting both movement and immobility, the border region has been, for more than a century, the setting for those who come to stay, those who try to cross over into the United States, and, more recently, those who are deported from the US. Accordingly, the religious practices in this area flow along with the shifting populations and are transformed by them. From a socio-anthropological perspective, this article examines the mai…
Figés dans le mouvement: Périodes et espaces d'attente des migrants mexicains expulsés des États-Unis
Aujourd’hui, après un siècle marqué par une forte mobilité, le système migratoire Mexique/États-Unis s’essouffle : le contrôle des frontières a été durci et de nouvelles procédures d’expulsion des migrants en situation irrégulière ont été mises en place. Les auteurs explorent ici les contextes et les expériences de ceux qui, expulsés et dans l’impossibilité de choisir une destination, restent « figés dans le mouvement », entre l’espoir de retrouv…
Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions
This paper suggests that transborder mobility is crucial to the way individuals relate to space and the meanings that they construct about it. Based on ethnographic work carried out in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula border regions, an analysis is conducted of the relationship between the border region and the spatial mobility of its inhabitants. We conclude that there are at least four possible ways of constructing mobility in bor…
Counter-mapping migration: Irregular Migrants' Stories Through Cognitive Mapping
Map-making has played a crucial role in the politics of bordering and ordering. Irregular migrants challenge these politics of confinement on a regular basis; despite this, or perhaps precisely because of it, their stories are hidden in state-centric discourses. Through a counter-mapping approach, this paper focuses on our understanding of how irregular migrants experience their journey. Specifically, an analysis of cognitive maps created by Cent…
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention
By focusing on the externalisation of US bordering into Mexico, we consider the institutional setting that both limits and channels gestures of care and empathy in migrant detention. Working within a framework that highlights the connections between the global and the intimate, and by proposing to read these connections as they unfold into an intimate geopolitics of humanitarian borderwork, we unpack the effects of Mexico’s recent shift towards h…
Abnormal bordering: Control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres
Migrant detention in Mexico, as a cornerstone of the Mexican Transit Control Regime, is intrinsically related to US migration control. Drawing on Katja Franko Aas’s ‘border penality’ and ‘abnormal justice’ conceptualizations, this paper argues that Transit Control Regimes are an abnormal bordering and the outcome of two trends of the geographies of migration control: reverberation and distancing. To examine how this abnormal bordering is enforced…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Irregular Transmigrants’ Journeys and Mental Mapping Methodology
The development of border clusters and transit control regimes aiming to detain irregular migrants before they reach their destination countries is constructed upon a multidimensional geopolitical narrative driven by border security agreements. The Mexican Transit Control Regime illustrates that 16 years of trying to control migration in transit to the United States has not reduced it but has only succeeded in pushing migrants into dangerous rout…
Figés dans le mouvement: Périodes et espaces d'attente des migrants mexicains expulsés des États-Unis
Aujourd’hui, après un siècle marqué par une forte mobilité, le système migratoire Mexique/États-Unis s’essouffle : le contrôle des frontières a été durci et de nouvelles procédures d’expulsion des migrants en situation irrégulière ont été mises en place. Les auteurs explorent ici les contextes et les expériences de ceux qui, expulsés et dans l’impossibilité de choisir une destination, restent « figés dans le mouvement », entre l’espoir de retrouv…
Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions
This paper suggests that transborder mobility is crucial to the way individuals relate to space and the meanings that they construct about it. Based on ethnographic work carried out in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula border regions, an analysis is conducted of the relationship between the border region and the spatial mobility of its inhabitants. We conclude that there are at least four possible ways of constructing mobility in bor…
Euphemistic Rhetoric and Dysphemistic Practices: Governing Migration in Mexico
This paper analyses Mexico’s governance of migration and its geopolitical moral dilemma: an enthusiastic champion for migrants’ human rights in the international sphere and a tough migration control enforcer. I consider this seemingly ambivalent and contradictory approach through the lens of euphemisms and dysphemisms, more specifically by analysing the use of euphemistic rhetoric and dysphemistic practices in the governance of migration. Through…
Emotional geographies of irregular transmigrants’ journeys
Migrants’ journeys involve geopolitical, corporeal, and emotional dimensions. Yet, emotions, which are fundamental to understand the migrant experience, are usually overlooked. Following the ‘emotional geographies’ approach, this article analyses the spatial contextualisation of the affective and emotional experiences of irregular migrants in transit. Cognitive mapping methodology is proposed as a means to address the spatial and subjective dimen…
Saints and Virgins: Religious Pluralism in the City of Tijuana
A double referent connoting both movement and immobility, the border region has been, for more than a century, the setting for those who come to stay, those who try to cross over into the United States, and, more recently, those who are deported from the US. Accordingly, the religious practices in this area flow along with the shifting populations and are transformed by them. From a socio-anthropological perspective, this article examines the mai…
Crossing the Border: Mobility as a Resource in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula Regions
This paper suggests that transborder mobility is crucial to the way individuals relate to space and the meanings that they construct about it. Based on ethnographic work carried out in the Tijuana/San Diego and Tecún Umán/Tapachula border regions, an analysis is conducted of the relationship between the border region and the spatial mobility of its inhabitants. We conclude that there are at least four possible ways of constructing mobility in bor…
Figés dans le mouvement: Périodes et espaces d'attente des migrants mexicains expulsés des États-Unis
Aujourd’hui, après un siècle marqué par une forte mobilité, le système migratoire Mexique/États-Unis s’essouffle : le contrôle des frontières a été durci et de nouvelles procédures d’expulsion des migrants en situation irrégulière ont été mises en place. Les auteurs explorent ici les contextes et les expériences de ceux qui, expulsés et dans l’impossibilité de choisir une destination, restent « figés dans le mouvement », entre l’espoir de retrouv…
Saints and Virgins: Religious Pluralism in the City of Tijuana
A double referent connoting both movement and immobility, the border region has been, for more than a century, the setting for those who come to stay, those who try to cross over into the United States, and, more recently, those who are deported from the US. Accordingly, the religious practices in this area flow along with the shifting populations and are transformed by them. From a socio-anthropological perspective, this article examines the mai…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Irregular Transmigrants’ Journeys and Mental Mapping Methodology
The development of border clusters and transit control regimes aiming to detain irregular migrants before they reach their destination countries is constructed upon a multidimensional geopolitical narrative driven by border security agreements. The Mexican Transit Control Regime illustrates that 16 years of trying to control migration in transit to the United States has not reduced it but has only succeeded in pushing migrants into dangerous rout…
Counter-mapping migration: Irregular Migrants' Stories Through Cognitive Mapping
Map-making has played a crucial role in the politics of bordering and ordering. Irregular migrants challenge these politics of confinement on a regular basis; despite this, or perhaps precisely because of it, their stories are hidden in state-centric discourses. Through a counter-mapping approach, this paper focuses on our understanding of how irregular migrants experience their journey. Specifically, an analysis of cognitive maps created by Cent…
Emotional geographies of irregular transmigrants’ journeys
Migrants’ journeys involve geopolitical, corporeal, and emotional dimensions. Yet, emotions, which are fundamental to understand the migrant experience, are usually overlooked. Following the ‘emotional geographies’ approach, this article analyses the spatial contextualisation of the affective and emotional experiences of irregular migrants in transit. Cognitive mapping methodology is proposed as a means to address the spatial and subjective dimen…
Abnormal bordering: Control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres
Migrant detention in Mexico, as a cornerstone of the Mexican Transit Control Regime, is intrinsically related to US migration control. Drawing on Katja Franko Aas’s ‘border penality’ and ‘abnormal justice’ conceptualizations, this paper argues that Transit Control Regimes are an abnormal bordering and the outcome of two trends of the geographies of migration control: reverberation and distancing. To examine how this abnormal bordering is enforced…
Research Handbook on Irregular Migration
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1350-2000
Euphemistic Rhetoric and Dysphemistic Practices: Governing Migration in Mexico
This paper analyses Mexico’s governance of migration and its geopolitical moral dilemma: an enthusiastic champion for migrants’ human rights in the international sphere and a tough migration control enforcer. I consider this seemingly ambivalent and contradictory approach through the lens of euphemisms and dysphemisms, more specifically by analysing the use of euphemistic rhetoric and dysphemistic practices in the governance of migration. Through…
Tactics of Empathy: The Intimate Geopolitics of Mexican Migrant Detention
By focusing on the externalisation of US bordering into Mexico, we consider the institutional setting that both limits and channels gestures of care and empathy in migrant detention. Working within a framework that highlights the connections between the global and the intimate, and by proposing to read these connections as they unfold into an intimate geopolitics of humanitarian borderwork, we unpack the effects of Mexico’s recent shift towards h…
Feeding migrants to cultivate a moral self: An analysis of food relief in U.S. and Mexican migration control
Criminal Justice: Maatschappelijk effectieve strafrechtspleging 2023-2029
Sociology (9 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)