Rebecca Galemba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 173884 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Galemba |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Galemba |
| ASSINATURA | GALEMBA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4116-3749 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Transit as racialized space
Scholars have attuned to the challenges Central American migrants face along increasingly perilous northward journeys. However, most studies of "transit spaces" are relatively migrant-centric, focusing on the meanings these spaces hold for migrants, or how particular locales are reconfigured in relation to migratory processes. There has been less attention to the meanings such places hold for long-term inhabitants, as well as how they change over…
Teaching in Immigration Court
Toward an anthropology that cares
Anthropologists' cross-cultural studies of kinship, gender, and caregiving have shown how care is fundamental to the human experience. Ironically, anthropologists have been relatively silent about the caregiving we ourselves do. To understand these experiences, we conducted an online survey (N = 492), seven focus groups (N = 31), and seven in-depth interviews of anthropologists in various career stages. We use the term "academic carework" both to…
No Place for Old Men”
Day laborers are a highly vulnerable population, due to their contingent work arrangements, low socioeconomic position, and precarious immigration status. Earlier studies posited day labor as a temporary bridge for recent immigrants to achieve more stable employment, but recent studies have observed increasing duration of residence in the United States among foreign-born day laborers. This article draws on 170 qualitative interviews and a multi-v…
Gateway to the North? Contingent Journeys at the Mexico-Guatemala Border
As insecurity in Central America persists and avenues for asylum in the U.S. constrict, migrants are exploring options in Mexico-to seek humanitarian relief or to bide time as they consider whether to continue north, settle, or return. Based on interviews with migrants and shelter staff at the Mexico-Guatemala border in the summer of 2017, this article applies contingency logics (Bledsoe 2002) to analyze how proximate social ties, accumulated exp…
Contraband Corridor
The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heig…
Coyotes from the Same Wolf
Paradoxes of Protection
Executive Summary Anti-immigrant rhetoric and constricting avenues for asylum in the United States, amid continuing high rates of poverty, environmental crisis, and violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, have led many migrants from these countries to remain in Mexico. Yet despite opportunities for humanitarian relief in Mexico, since the early 2000s the Mexican government, under growing pressure from the United States, has pursued enfo…
How Caregiving Impacts Anthropology Careers
He used to be aPollero' the securitisation of migration and the smuggler/migrant nexus at the Mexico-Guatemala border
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an unmonitored crossing along the Mexico-Guatemala border, this article explores how enhanced border securitisation made migration and border smuggling more suspect, illicit, and risky. In a region where identities have been fluid, official documentation is uneven, and immigration policing is racialised, border residents increasingly use racial stereotypes and fears to conjure the Central American migrant ‘other…
Illegality and Invisibility at Margins and Borders
Drawing from the scholarship on states and illegal practices and the author's fieldwork at the Mexico‐Guatemala border, this article posits new directions in the study of legitimacy, legality, and morality in borderlands. By making illegality central, the article reveals the politics and power dynamics that shape how people differentially experience the law. The article uses illegality as a theoretical lens to reexamine what constitute worthy sub…
Illegal Anthropology
Remapping the Border
This paper examines how rural communities on a clandestine road crossing the Mexico-Guatemala border stake claim over this route while delegitimizing state control. Each community delimits its control by erecting a cadena, or chain, across its section of the road, from which it levies tolls on cross-border contraband. The cadenas shape political, economic, and cultural geography by instituting a local sovereign system of morality, economy, and le…
Corn is food, not contraband
With no local outlet to sell their corn harvests as a result of neoliberal policies, residents on the Mexico-Guatemala border pursued an alternative strategy. They mobilized to smuggle corn from Mexico to Guatemala and asserted that this constituted legitimate "free trade." Residents reinterpreted free trade to imply their right to "freely" sell corn over the border, thereby challenging the implications of official free-trade policies that were a…
Taking Contraband Seriously
This article details the work experiences of small-scale smugglers at the Mexico-Guatemala border and how they give meaning to their work by redefining contraband as legitimate "business." Through their daily practices, border residents distinguish between the "legal" flows of the everyday goods they smuggle and "illicit" flows of drugs, arms, and migrants. I apply a practice theory perspective to illustrate how everyday work practices deemed ill…
Informal and Illicit Entrepreneurs
A panel at the 2007 meetings of the American Anthropological Association examined the working lives of illicit and informal entrepreneurs living in "the gaps" or "shadows" of neoliberal globalization. Panelists challenged dichotomies such as informal/formal and legal/illegal by examining the everyday practices of workers in diverse settings. Emphasis was placed on entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate their activities and identities to themselves …
Informal and Illicit Entrepreneurs
A panel at the 2007 meetings of the American Anthropological Association examined the working lives of illicit and informal entrepreneurs living in "the gaps" or "shadows" of neoliberal globalization. Panelists challenged dichotomies such as informal/formal and legal/illegal by examining the everyday practices of workers in diverse settings. Emphasis was placed on entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate their activities and identities to themselves …
Corn is food, not contraband
With no local outlet to sell their corn harvests as a result of neoliberal policies, residents on the Mexico-Guatemala border pursued an alternative strategy. They mobilized to smuggle corn from Mexico to Guatemala and asserted that this constituted legitimate "free trade." Residents reinterpreted free trade to imply their right to "freely" sell corn over the border, thereby challenging the implications of official free-trade policies that were a…
He used to be aPollero' the securitisation of migration and the smuggler/migrant nexus at the Mexico-Guatemala border
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an unmonitored crossing along the Mexico-Guatemala border, this article explores how enhanced border securitisation made migration and border smuggling more suspect, illicit, and risky. In a region where identities have been fluid, official documentation is uneven, and immigration policing is racialised, border residents increasingly use racial stereotypes and fears to conjure the Central American migrant ‘other…
Remapping the Border
This paper examines how rural communities on a clandestine road crossing the Mexico-Guatemala border stake claim over this route while delegitimizing state control. Each community delimits its control by erecting a cadena, or chain, across its section of the road, from which it levies tolls on cross-border contraband. The cadenas shape political, economic, and cultural geography by instituting a local sovereign system of morality, economy, and le…
Paradoxes of Protection
Executive Summary Anti-immigrant rhetoric and constricting avenues for asylum in the United States, amid continuing high rates of poverty, environmental crisis, and violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, have led many migrants from these countries to remain in Mexico. Yet despite opportunities for humanitarian relief in Mexico, since the early 2000s the Mexican government, under growing pressure from the United States, has pursued enfo…
Taking Contraband Seriously
This article details the work experiences of small-scale smugglers at the Mexico-Guatemala border and how they give meaning to their work by redefining contraband as legitimate "business." Through their daily practices, border residents distinguish between the "legal" flows of the everyday goods they smuggle and "illicit" flows of drugs, arms, and migrants. I apply a practice theory perspective to illustrate how everyday work practices deemed ill…
How Caregiving Impacts Anthropology Careers
Gateway to the North? Contingent Journeys at the Mexico-Guatemala Border
As insecurity in Central America persists and avenues for asylum in the U.S. constrict, migrants are exploring options in Mexico-to seek humanitarian relief or to bide time as they consider whether to continue north, settle, or return. Based on interviews with migrants and shelter staff at the Mexico-Guatemala border in the summer of 2017, this article applies contingency logics (Bledsoe 2002) to analyze how proximate social ties, accumulated exp…
Teaching in Immigration Court
Toward an anthropology that cares
Anthropologists' cross-cultural studies of kinship, gender, and caregiving have shown how care is fundamental to the human experience. Ironically, anthropologists have been relatively silent about the caregiving we ourselves do. To understand these experiences, we conducted an online survey (N = 492), seven focus groups (N = 31), and seven in-depth interviews of anthropologists in various career stages. We use the term "academic carework" both to…
No Place for Old Men”
Day laborers are a highly vulnerable population, due to their contingent work arrangements, low socioeconomic position, and precarious immigration status. Earlier studies posited day labor as a temporary bridge for recent immigrants to achieve more stable employment, but recent studies have observed increasing duration of residence in the United States among foreign-born day laborers. This article draws on 170 qualitative interviews and a multi-v…
Informal and Illicit Entrepreneurs
A panel at the 2007 meetings of the American Anthropological Association examined the working lives of illicit and informal entrepreneurs living in "the gaps" or "shadows" of neoliberal globalization. Panelists challenged dichotomies such as informal/formal and legal/illegal by examining the everyday practices of workers in diverse settings. Emphasis was placed on entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate their activities and identities to themselves …
Remapping the Border
This paper examines how rural communities on a clandestine road crossing the Mexico-Guatemala border stake claim over this route while delegitimizing state control. Each community delimits its control by erecting a cadena, or chain, across its section of the road, from which it levies tolls on cross-border contraband. The cadenas shape political, economic, and cultural geography by instituting a local sovereign system of morality, economy, and le…
Corn is food, not contraband
With no local outlet to sell their corn harvests as a result of neoliberal policies, residents on the Mexico-Guatemala border pursued an alternative strategy. They mobilized to smuggle corn from Mexico to Guatemala and asserted that this constituted legitimate "free trade." Residents reinterpreted free trade to imply their right to "freely" sell corn over the border, thereby challenging the implications of official free-trade policies that were a…
Taking Contraband Seriously
This article details the work experiences of small-scale smugglers at the Mexico-Guatemala border and how they give meaning to their work by redefining contraband as legitimate "business." Through their daily practices, border residents distinguish between the "legal" flows of the everyday goods they smuggle and "illicit" flows of drugs, arms, and migrants. I apply a practice theory perspective to illustrate how everyday work practices deemed ill…
Illegality and Invisibility at Margins and Borders
Drawing from the scholarship on states and illegal practices and the author's fieldwork at the Mexico‐Guatemala border, this article posits new directions in the study of legitimacy, legality, and morality in borderlands. By making illegality central, the article reveals the politics and power dynamics that shape how people differentially experience the law. The article uses illegality as a theoretical lens to reexamine what constitute worthy sub…
Illegal Anthropology
How Caregiving Impacts Anthropology Careers
He used to be aPollero' the securitisation of migration and the smuggler/migrant nexus at the Mexico-Guatemala border
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an unmonitored crossing along the Mexico-Guatemala border, this article explores how enhanced border securitisation made migration and border smuggling more suspect, illicit, and risky. In a region where identities have been fluid, official documentation is uneven, and immigration policing is racialised, border residents increasingly use racial stereotypes and fears to conjure the Central American migrant ‘other…
Coyotes from the Same Wolf
Paradoxes of Protection
Executive Summary Anti-immigrant rhetoric and constricting avenues for asylum in the United States, amid continuing high rates of poverty, environmental crisis, and violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, have led many migrants from these countries to remain in Mexico. Yet despite opportunities for humanitarian relief in Mexico, since the early 2000s the Mexican government, under growing pressure from the United States, has pursued enfo…
Contraband Corridor
The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heig…
No Place for Old Men”
Day laborers are a highly vulnerable population, due to their contingent work arrangements, low socioeconomic position, and precarious immigration status. Earlier studies posited day labor as a temporary bridge for recent immigrants to achieve more stable employment, but recent studies have observed increasing duration of residence in the United States among foreign-born day laborers. This article draws on 170 qualitative interviews and a multi-v…
Gateway to the North? Contingent Journeys at the Mexico-Guatemala Border
As insecurity in Central America persists and avenues for asylum in the U.S. constrict, migrants are exploring options in Mexico-to seek humanitarian relief or to bide time as they consider whether to continue north, settle, or return. Based on interviews with migrants and shelter staff at the Mexico-Guatemala border in the summer of 2017, this article applies contingency logics (Bledsoe 2002) to analyze how proximate social ties, accumulated exp…
Teaching in Immigration Court
Toward an anthropology that cares
Anthropologists' cross-cultural studies of kinship, gender, and caregiving have shown how care is fundamental to the human experience. Ironically, anthropologists have been relatively silent about the caregiving we ourselves do. To understand these experiences, we conducted an online survey (N = 492), seven focus groups (N = 31), and seven in-depth interviews of anthropologists in various career stages. We use the term "academic carework" both to…
Transit as racialized space
Scholars have attuned to the challenges Central American migrants face along increasingly perilous northward journeys. However, most studies of "transit spaces" are relatively migrant-centric, focusing on the meanings these spaces hold for migrants, or how particular locales are reconfigured in relation to migratory processes. There has been less attention to the meanings such places hold for long-term inhabitants, as well as how they change over…
Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Immigration (5 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 obras)