Carla Angulo-Pasel
Biographic Data
| ID | 821473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Angulo-Pasel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Angulo-Pasel |
| SIGNATURE | ANGULO-PASEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8466-1521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migrant journeys to the US southern border
From 2021 to 2024, there was an unprecedented expansion of migrant entry and asylum seeking along the US-Mexico border from a growing diversity of countries, but especially from Venezuela and Haiti. This article focuses on the aspirations and capabilities of migrants seeking asylum, and the risks they undertake to reach the US southern border. The study is based on field research in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in which 153 migrants were interview…
Border Perceptions
With the Trump administration, we witnessed a hardening of border security policy and practices. Trump used his leadership and celebrity to explicitly attack and criminalize “undocumented” migrants with a discourse of threat, danger, invasion, crisis. Policywise, he took steps to further securitize the borderlands. In this paper, we examine how public opinion has differed with regards to the support or opposition to these hard security policies, …
Border vigilante/Militia activity, the National Security State, and the Migrant “Threat”
The relationship between border security and immigration has always been contentious and politically divisive. Using the cases of the War on Drugs (WoD), the War on Terror (WoT) and then the Migrant “Caravan” of 2018, I show that border security and enforcement have followed a historical pattern of racialised and gendered hierarchies using the prominent language frames of crime, war and invasion to negatively construct the migrant as “other” and …
The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same
With the politics of borders, the socio-economic divide between the United States and Mexico is evident. The geographic proximity to the U.S. makes the Mexico–Guatemala border an extension of the U.S. border enforcement regime. This article argues that the politics surrounding the U.S.–Guatemala border have not necessarily changed, because, at the core, the main objective of these border governance practices is to stop the movement of undesirable…
Rethinking the space of the migrant shelter in Mexico
Using a critical border, feminist perspective, this article analyzes the role of the migrant shelter as a practitioner community actively involved in the dialogue of borders and directly affected by the restrictive border policies that are implemented against ‘unauthorized’ migrants in the name of national security. Based on field research carried out in Mexico, this article examines how borders affect the shelters used by ‘transit’ migrants. Spe…
Border Optics
Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37(5), pp. 1103–1104
The Politics of Temporary Protection Schemes
Using Mexico’s Tarjeta de Visitante por Razones Humanitarias (TVRH) as a primary case study, this article examines how states can use temporary protection schemes as border security measures while claiming to provide protection. Although the TVRH offers a legal pathway and status to move within Mexico, it equally restricts certain rights due to its temporary nature. It becomes a form of differential inclusion by which the state has the right to b…
The Categorized and Invisible
In an increasingly globalized world, border control is continuously changing. Nation-states grapple with 'migration management' and maintain secure borders against 'illegal' flows. In Mexico, borders are elusive; internal and external security is blurred, and policies create legal categories of people whether it is a 'trusted' tourist or an 'unauthorized' migrant. For the 'unauthorized' Central American woman migrant trying to achieve safe passag…
The journey of Central American women migrants
This article delves into the concept of the ‘mobile commons’ which is articulated within the Autonomy of Migration (AoM) approach. The AoM literature focuses on migrant agency by advocating that migrants practice ‘escape’ and ‘invisibility’. However, drawing on the stories of women migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central American (NTCA) (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) travelling through Mexico, this article aims to engender and thereby …
The Categorized and Invisible
In an increasingly globalized world, border control is continuously changing. Nation-states grapple with 'migration management' and maintain secure borders against 'illegal' flows. In Mexico, borders are elusive; internal and external security is blurred, and policies create legal categories of people whether it is a 'trusted' tourist or an 'unauthorized' migrant. For the 'unauthorized' Central American woman migrant trying to achieve safe passag…
The journey of Central American women migrants
This article delves into the concept of the ‘mobile commons’ which is articulated within the Autonomy of Migration (AoM) approach. The AoM literature focuses on migrant agency by advocating that migrants practice ‘escape’ and ‘invisibility’. However, drawing on the stories of women migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central American (NTCA) (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) travelling through Mexico, this article aims to engender and thereby …
The Politics of Temporary Protection Schemes
Using Mexico’s Tarjeta de Visitante por Razones Humanitarias (TVRH) as a primary case study, this article examines how states can use temporary protection schemes as border security measures while claiming to provide protection. Although the TVRH offers a legal pathway and status to move within Mexico, it equally restricts certain rights due to its temporary nature. It becomes a form of differential inclusion by which the state has the right to b…
Border vigilante/Militia activity, the National Security State, and the Migrant “Threat”
The relationship between border security and immigration has always been contentious and politically divisive. Using the cases of the War on Drugs (WoD), the War on Terror (WoT) and then the Migrant “Caravan” of 2018, I show that border security and enforcement have followed a historical pattern of racialised and gendered hierarchies using the prominent language frames of crime, war and invasion to negatively construct the migrant as “other” and …
Border Optics
Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37(5), pp. 1103–1104
The journey of Central American women migrants
This article delves into the concept of the ‘mobile commons’ which is articulated within the Autonomy of Migration (AoM) approach. The AoM literature focuses on migrant agency by advocating that migrants practice ‘escape’ and ‘invisibility’. However, drawing on the stories of women migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central American (NTCA) (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) travelling through Mexico, this article aims to engender and thereby …
The Categorized and Invisible
In an increasingly globalized world, border control is continuously changing. Nation-states grapple with 'migration management' and maintain secure borders against 'illegal' flows. In Mexico, borders are elusive; internal and external security is blurred, and policies create legal categories of people whether it is a 'trusted' tourist or an 'unauthorized' migrant. For the 'unauthorized' Central American woman migrant trying to achieve safe passag…
The Politics of Temporary Protection Schemes
Using Mexico’s Tarjeta de Visitante por Razones Humanitarias (TVRH) as a primary case study, this article examines how states can use temporary protection schemes as border security measures while claiming to provide protection. Although the TVRH offers a legal pathway and status to move within Mexico, it equally restricts certain rights due to its temporary nature. It becomes a form of differential inclusion by which the state has the right to b…
The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same
With the politics of borders, the socio-economic divide between the United States and Mexico is evident. The geographic proximity to the U.S. makes the Mexico–Guatemala border an extension of the U.S. border enforcement regime. This article argues that the politics surrounding the U.S.–Guatemala border have not necessarily changed, because, at the core, the main objective of these border governance practices is to stop the movement of undesirable…
Rethinking the space of the migrant shelter in Mexico
Using a critical border, feminist perspective, this article analyzes the role of the migrant shelter as a practitioner community actively involved in the dialogue of borders and directly affected by the restrictive border policies that are implemented against ‘unauthorized’ migrants in the name of national security. Based on field research carried out in Mexico, this article examines how borders affect the shelters used by ‘transit’ migrants. Spe…
Border Optics
Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37(5), pp. 1103–1104
Border vigilante/Militia activity, the National Security State, and the Migrant “Threat”
The relationship between border security and immigration has always been contentious and politically divisive. Using the cases of the War on Drugs (WoD), the War on Terror (WoT) and then the Migrant “Caravan” of 2018, I show that border security and enforcement have followed a historical pattern of racialised and gendered hierarchies using the prominent language frames of crime, war and invasion to negatively construct the migrant as “other” and …
Border Perceptions
With the Trump administration, we witnessed a hardening of border security policy and practices. Trump used his leadership and celebrity to explicitly attack and criminalize “undocumented” migrants with a discourse of threat, danger, invasion, crisis. Policywise, he took steps to further securitize the borderlands. In this paper, we examine how public opinion has differed with regards to the support or opposition to these hard security policies, …
Migrant journeys to the US southern border
From 2021 to 2024, there was an unprecedented expansion of migrant entry and asylum seeking along the US-Mexico border from a growing diversity of countries, but especially from Venezuela and Haiti. This article focuses on the aspirations and capabilities of migrants seeking asylum, and the risks they undertake to reach the US southern border. The study is based on field research in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in which 153 migrants were interview…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Border Security (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Computer security (3 works)