Definig the US-Mexico border as hyperreality

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ID2932318
AuthorsCarlos A Duarte-Herrera (Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume2
Issue4
Pages139-165
Publication date2002-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0187-6961 • E-ISSN: 2395-9134
PublisherInstituto de Investigaciones Sociales (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21670/ref.2001.04.a05
OpenAlexW1556591651
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

The US-Mexico border has been defined as a periphery, as a transborder social system, and more currently, as a station in transnational circuits. The two first definitions presuppose the strongly criticized concepts of region and cultural area. The third definition shares, along with the other two definitions, the positivist epistemological supposition that the border is a specific entity that can be known and experienced as such by any observer, no matter their social site. This paper is to support the definition of the border as a hyperreality constituted by speeches, practices, and experiences of the different social actors. From this posture, the image of the border as a formal geopolitical division is interpreted as a sustained image and reproduced by government agencies. Likewise, this writing is to support the documentation and promotion of alternative images constructed and reproduced by social actors from different power sites

Documentation · Geopolitics · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Power (physics · Promotion (chess · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography

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