Wendy A Vogt
Biographic Data
| ID | 200124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy A Vogt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogt |
| SIGNATURE | VOGT W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dirty Work, Dangerous Others
While Mexico has been openly critical of US immigration enforcement policies, it has also served as a strategic partner in US efforts to externalize its immigration enforcement strategy. In 2016, Mexico returned twice as many Central Americans as did the United States, calling many to criticize Mexico for doing the United States’ “dirty work.” Based on ethnographic research and discourse analysis, this article unpacks and complicates the idea tha…
Lives in Transit
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, soli…
Lives in Transit
Propelled by structural conditions of violence and everyday insecurity, each year tens of thousands of people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador leave their homes in search of a more secure future. For those en route to the United States, they must first cross Mexico where transnational and state security regimes funnel them into clandestine routes where they encounter abuse, injury, extortion, police profiling, sexual violence and kidnappi…
Stuck in the Middle With You
This paper examines some of the intimate, embodied and affective dimensions of mobility for unauthorised Central American migrants in Mexico. While in transit, migrants become implicated within the violence of local and transnational economies of smuggling, organised crime, kidnapping and securitisation. At the same time, migrants engage intimate economies of exchange, kinship and care as they negotiate their movements and their lives. Bringing t…
Immigrant Smuggling
Immigrant smuggling involves the unauthorized movement of people between and across international borders, in exchange for financial or material benefit. It is a complex and profitable global industry that cannot be separated from larger political and social processes in the origin, receiving, and transit states. The immigrant smuggling industry becomes stronger as states increase border security and enforcement.
Homeland Heroes
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between neoliberalism and nationalism through the counterintuitive comparison of journeys travelled by US citizens as they enlist in the military and by unauthorized Central Americans as they migrate to the United States. We argue that, however different the context and content of their decisions and their lives, Central American migrants and US soldiers are both connected within a larger political eco…
Crossing Mexico
The undocumented-migrant journey across Mexico has become a site of intense violence, exploitation, and profit making within the logics of capitalism. While transnational migration is often conceptualized from the perspective of sending and receiving communities and borderlands, I suggest the liminal spaces between these zones are crucial sites for understanding how structural forms of violence are reconfigured in local settings. Drawing on my et…
Crossing Mexico
The undocumented-migrant journey across Mexico has become a site of intense violence, exploitation, and profit making within the logics of capitalism. While transnational migration is often conceptualized from the perspective of sending and receiving communities and borderlands, I suggest the liminal spaces between these zones are crucial sites for understanding how structural forms of violence are reconfigured in local settings. Drawing on my et…
Stuck in the Middle With You
This paper examines some of the intimate, embodied and affective dimensions of mobility for unauthorised Central American migrants in Mexico. While in transit, migrants become implicated within the violence of local and transnational economies of smuggling, organised crime, kidnapping and securitisation. At the same time, migrants engage intimate economies of exchange, kinship and care as they negotiate their movements and their lives. Bringing t…
Homeland Heroes
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between neoliberalism and nationalism through the counterintuitive comparison of journeys travelled by US citizens as they enlist in the military and by unauthorized Central Americans as they migrate to the United States. We argue that, however different the context and content of their decisions and their lives, Central American migrants and US soldiers are both connected within a larger political eco…
Lives in Transit
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, soli…
Crossing Mexico
The undocumented-migrant journey across Mexico has become a site of intense violence, exploitation, and profit making within the logics of capitalism. While transnational migration is often conceptualized from the perspective of sending and receiving communities and borderlands, I suggest the liminal spaces between these zones are crucial sites for understanding how structural forms of violence are reconfigured in local settings. Drawing on my et…
Immigrant Smuggling
Immigrant smuggling involves the unauthorized movement of people between and across international borders, in exchange for financial or material benefit. It is a complex and profitable global industry that cannot be separated from larger political and social processes in the origin, receiving, and transit states. The immigrant smuggling industry becomes stronger as states increase border security and enforcement.
Homeland Heroes
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between neoliberalism and nationalism through the counterintuitive comparison of journeys travelled by US citizens as they enlist in the military and by unauthorized Central Americans as they migrate to the United States. We argue that, however different the context and content of their decisions and their lives, Central American migrants and US soldiers are both connected within a larger political eco…
Stuck in the Middle With You
This paper examines some of the intimate, embodied and affective dimensions of mobility for unauthorised Central American migrants in Mexico. While in transit, migrants become implicated within the violence of local and transnational economies of smuggling, organised crime, kidnapping and securitisation. At the same time, migrants engage intimate economies of exchange, kinship and care as they negotiate their movements and their lives. Bringing t…
Lives in Transit
Propelled by structural conditions of violence and everyday insecurity, each year tens of thousands of people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador leave their homes in search of a more secure future. For those en route to the United States, they must first cross Mexico where transnational and state security regimes funnel them into clandestine routes where they encounter abuse, injury, extortion, police profiling, sexual violence and kidnappi…
Lives in Transit
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, soli…
Dirty Work, Dangerous Others
While Mexico has been openly critical of US immigration enforcement policies, it has also served as a strategic partner in US efforts to externalize its immigration enforcement strategy. In 2016, Mexico returned twice as many Central Americans as did the United States, calling many to criticize Mexico for doing the United States’ “dirty work.” Based on ethnographic research and discourse analysis, this article unpacks and complicates the idea tha…
Law (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works)