Remapping the Border

Geospatial Technologies and Border Activism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4475713
AutoresJames P Walsh (0000-0003-2151-330X, autor correspondente), James Walsh (0000-0002-8839-5865, Social Science and Policy Forum, University of Philadelphia, PA 191104, USA)
Ano2013
Volume31
Fascículo6
Páginas969-987
Data de publicação2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d18112
OpenAlexW2035326397
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas33

This paper analyzes the politics of mapping along the US-Mexico border to explore how humanitarian activists wield geospatial technologies in challenging border securitization. In addition to 'bounding' societies within delimited territorial zones, mapping technologies have recently been elevated to encompass observing, locating, and tracking mobile bodies-outcomes that, in the context of immigration control, have heightened the risk of clandestine border crossings and produced a sharp rise in migrant fatalities. As geospatial tools have been integrated into official gatekeeping strategies, activists have deployed them to protect migrants, promote mobility rights, and disrupt borders and the spatial, legal, and technical orders underpinning their materialization and enforcement. This case study considers the political implications of these interventions, and highlights how technologies traditionally aligned with state security and surveillance have been reappropriated in the service of transnational solidarity, recognition, and hospitality

Border Security · Cartography · Context (archaeology · Geography · Geospatial analysis · Political science · Politics · Solidarity · Transnationality · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues