Abby Wheatley
Biographic Data
| ID | 6603955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abby Wheatley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abby |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheatley |
| SIGNATURE | WHEATLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Customs and Border Protection |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Walking the Migrant Trail: Community Resistance to a Weaponized Desert
Since 1994, migrant fatalities on the Arizona Sonora Border have grown significantly as a result of prevention through deterrence policies ostensibly intended to prevent unauthorized migration by making it dangerous and even deadly to migrate. Building on a growing body of scholarship documenting migrant vulnerability, this article examines the political dimensions and possibilities of the Migrant Trail, a seventy-five-mile collective walk from S…
Impermeable Borders and the Futility of Walls
Despite contemporary and historical evidence proving the ineffective nature of border walls to fully secure a territory and population, countries around the world are fortifying their borders with
Keep moving: Collective Agency Along the Migrant Trail
Recent scholarship has shown how aggressive policing along the US–Mexico border and in the interiors of the United States and Mexico has heightened migrants’ vulnerability to violence, death, displacement, and exploitation. Here, we explore how migrants engage in social practices to respond to state violence along an extended and militarized migrant trail. We show how migrants form part of a broader landscape of sociopolitical contestation with o…
Keep moving: Collective Agency Along the Migrant Trail
Recent scholarship has shown how aggressive policing along the US–Mexico border and in the interiors of the United States and Mexico has heightened migrants’ vulnerability to violence, death, displacement, and exploitation. Here, we explore how migrants engage in social practices to respond to state violence along an extended and militarized migrant trail. We show how migrants form part of a broader landscape of sociopolitical contestation with o…
Impermeable Borders and the Futility of Walls
Despite contemporary and historical evidence proving the ineffective nature of border walls to fully secure a territory and population, countries around the world are fortifying their borders with
Keep moving: Collective Agency Along the Migrant Trail
Recent scholarship has shown how aggressive policing along the US–Mexico border and in the interiors of the United States and Mexico has heightened migrants’ vulnerability to violence, death, displacement, and exploitation. Here, we explore how migrants engage in social practices to respond to state violence along an extended and militarized migrant trail. We show how migrants form part of a broader landscape of sociopolitical contestation with o…
Walking the Migrant Trail: Community Resistance to a Weaponized Desert
Since 1994, migrant fatalities on the Arizona Sonora Border have grown significantly as a result of prevention through deterrence policies ostensibly intended to prevent unauthorized migration by making it dangerous and even deadly to migrate. Building on a growing body of scholarship documenting migrant vulnerability, this article examines the political dimensions and possibilities of the Migrant Trail, a seventy-five-mile collective walk from S…
Impermeable Borders and the Futility of Walls
Despite contemporary and historical evidence proving the ineffective nature of border walls to fully secure a territory and population, countries around the world are fortifying their borders with
Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Border Security (1 works)